Coda

Marilyn Myller by @misterplease | Animated Short Film Artists by nature are, generally, a self-reflexive, navel-gazing bunch. Probably it has to do with the amount of time they spend in their own heads, inventing new worlds drawn from their own thoughts and experience. If that is true of artists in general, in must go double for stop-motion animators, practitioners of a pain-staking and often lonely craft. Mikey Please, winner of the SotW Award for Best Film of 2013 with The Eagleman Stag, is quite an entertaining and personable fellow in real life, but in his followup to that magnificent work he plumbs the depth of his angst for amusing result in Marilyn Myller. The film centers on myth, a world creating figure transforming existence on an awesome scale. She is a God! The parallels between Please and his character are clear, something even more recognizable in the film’s original iteration as Martyn Physher (a name that was changed as a courtesy to another famous British animator).