• Eli

    Directed by Nate Milton
    USA | 11 minutes |

A 15-year-old musician believes he has an extra-terrestrial implant in his ear. This is a true story based on the filmmaker’s experiences within the realms of High Strangeness, Magical Thinking and Manic Delusion.

In competition for Best Animated Short

film synopsis

film details

Director: Nate Milton
Producers: Nate Milton, Buck St. Thomas, Robert Bohn
Screenwriter: Nate Milton
Editor: Nate Milton
Music: Buck St. Thomas
Cast: Buck St. Thomas, Nate Milton
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2019
Running Time: 11 minutes
Awards: Audience Award, Animation Block Party; Best Animation, Movie Crush; Best Animation, MFI North Fork Festival
Primary Company: The Amigo Unit
Contact Email: nathanielmilton@gmail.com
Website: https://natemilton.com/eli

director biography

Nathaniel Milton has spent a lifetime trying convey the stories that he was born with through moving pictures. His animations, which are at turns ethereal and poetic and then scientific and biographical, bring the intangible into focus. His work lives in the high realms of magical strangeness, blurring the lines of what is possible when we remember that everything is magical. Working through his own dance with mental illness, Nate gives us Eli, a portrait of the depth, beauty and incomprehensible vastness of the human mind. Nate’s work makes the heart feel soft, gives shape to dreams and whispers on that small feeling we all carry somewhere which tells us that nothing is as it appears. Nate grew up in Cumberland, RI and attended SVA. He currently resides in Brooklyn. His works have appeared on Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of The Week, VICE, HBO, Facebook Watch, Radiolab and WNYC.

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