ELI
Nate Milton
ELI by Nate Milton | Photo courtesy of the artist
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ELI is a true story based on the filmmaker’s experiences within the realms of high strangeness, magical thinking, and manic delusion.
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ELI was nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
The film is based off a manic episode Milton had where he thought he had an extraterrestrial implant in his ear. It’s about being misunderstood and misdiagnosed.
“In general, it’s become my mission statement to talk openly about mental illness and to hopefully get the conversation started earlier,” Nate says. “I got diagnosed when I was thirty, and it opened up this whole third-person view of myself. If that happened when I was seventeen, it would have answered a lot of questions.”
For local mental health resources or more information about mental illness please visit National Alliance on Mental Illness's Central Texas website: https://namicentraltx.org
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Nate Milton is an animation director based in New York.
He has directed and executive produced an animated series for Facebook Watch, along with pieces for HBO, Adult Swim and NPR. Five of his short film projects are Vimeo Staff Picks. His films, which are at turns ethereal and poetic and then scientific and biographical, bring the intangible into focus.
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