Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? . Philosophical, Sci-Fi Claymation Film Answers the Timeless Question: . It’s a question that’s occupied our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle and Plato to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye The Science Guy. . The debate will likely rage as long as there’s a faith-based camp to square off against the evidence-based camp. . With that in mind, and the weekend looming, we’re inclined to go with the Claymation camp, in the form of Time Chicken, Nick Black’s 6-minute stop-motion meditation, above. . Described by its creator as a “philosophical-action-fantasy into the world of science, religion, knowledge and creation,” Time Chicken benefits from an appropriately bombastic original score performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the seeming-eyewitness testimony of its admittedly clay-based, all-poultry cast. . Black’s copious cinematic references and science fiction tropes are every bit as delectable as a Mughal style egg-stuffed whole chicken slow cooked in a rich almond-poppy seeds-yogurt-&-saffron gravy. ___________________________________________________ . Kudos to the filmmaker, too, for eschewing the uncredited dubbing that made fellow Claymator Nick Park’s Chicken Run Movie a crossover hit, trusting instead in the (unsubtitled) original language of his subjects - 'Chicken-ese'.

Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? . Philosophical, Sci-Fi Claymation Film Answers the Timeless Question: . It’s a question that’s occupied our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle and Plato to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye The Science Guy. . The debate will likely rage as long as there’s a faith-based camp to square off against the evidence-based camp. . With that in mind, and the weekend looming, we’re inclined to go with the Claymation camp, in the form of Time Chicken, Nick Black’s 6-minute stop-motion meditation, above. . Described by its creator as a “philosophical-action-fantasy into the world of science, religion, knowledge and creation,” Time Chicken benefits from an appropriately bombastic original score performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the seeming-eyewitness testimony of its admittedly clay-based, all-poultry cast. . Black’s copious cinematic references and science fiction tropes are every bit as delectable as a Mughal style egg-stuffed whole chicken slow cooked in a rich almond-poppy seeds-yogurt-&-saffron gravy. ___________________________________________________ . Kudos to the filmmaker, too, for eschewing the uncredited dubbing that made fellow Claymator Nick Park’s Chicken Run Movie a crossover hit, trusting instead in the (unsubtitled) original language of his subjects - 'Chicken-ese'. - A short stop motion film - In a bid to heal the rift in society, a plucky chicken sets out to find an answer to the ultimate question - which came first, the chicken…