It Took Seven Years To Finish This Stop-Motion Short Film

Take a look at "The Lighthouse," a short film that took filmmaker Simon Scheiber seven years to complete. Scheiber was the only person who worked on the animation for the project, and the eleven minute short is comprised of over 14,000 photographs. Watch it and then check out my thoughts below.

I'll admit that this thing takes a long while to get going. For the first four minutes or so, I was wondering what the point of it was. But once the action (such as it is) kicks in and the supernatural element comes into play, things pick up a little bit. The lighthouse keeper struck me as someone who got swept away in a new and exciting event without considering the consequences of his actions; we've all consumed enough stories to know that it's probably not the best idea to just start immediately messing around with something we don't fully understand. But there's a sense of poetry to the final moments — a lighthouse keeper who was formerly tasked with alerting passing ships to the presence of land becomes the captain of his own kind of ship, sailing through space announcing his own presence with his ever-spinning illumination.

What did you think?

Via: io9