Editorial Note: People keep asking me where they can watch the film. Click the play button on the thumbnail! I have it uploaded there.
In 2012, a seven-minute animated film appeared on the internet that won awards at festivals around the world, accumulated hundreds of millions of views, and positioned its creator for certain Hollywood stardom before he pulled it from the internet, shut down his studio, and vanished so completely that even the animators who worked alongside him for years have no idea where he went or why he walked away from everything being offered to him.
I spent two years and nearly a thousand dollars of my own money trying to track down Louis Lefebvre because I needed to understand what he knew and why he ran from success that most artists would kill for. I spoke with two animators who helped bring his vision to life and both told me the same thing: he disappeared a few months after the film went viral and nobody has heard from him since. The only reason you can still watch this film today is because a channel that curates CGI animation happened to upload it before the purge, otherwise this prophecy disguised as animation would have been erased entirely.
The Title Alone Should Make You Pay Attention
The official story claims the title references “The Pet Goat,” the book Bush was reading to schoolchildren when the towers fell, but those who have spent years decoding this film understand the title speaks to something far darker. ‘Goat’ and ‘Beast Mode’ have become the aspirational vocabulary for Gen Z kids who cheer for Baphomet and the Antichrist from Revelation without having the slightest idea what they are celebrating, and this film predicted that cultural shift over a decade before those phrases saturated every corner of youth culture.
What The Film Shows
I am only going to scratch the surface here because I want you to watch this yourself and tell me what you see. Shapeshifting presidents with vampire teeth morphing into each other while puppet masters control them from shadows, and demons are said to shapeshift and drink human blood to fuel their magick, so ask yourself if the film is telling us we are ruled by demons wearing human skin. Osama bin Laden with a CIA badge on his jacket telling you directly that 9/11 was an inside job. An elderly witch who many believe represents Elizabeth Bathory, the woman who murdered young servant girls and bathed in their blood, hiding inside a tower shaped like a giant penis and scrambling to defend herself with sorcery as Christ approaches to wipe her shame clean, a reference to nephilim bloodlines descended from fallen angels. Clockwork soldiers represented by a child held in the arms of the Black Madonna, the occult inversion of the Virgin Mary that some researchers believe is Lilith, the demon succubus who feeds on the flesh of infants. A god wearing a thousand masks with each one a different false religion, but every mask hides the same face because all false gods are the same deceiver. And Christ himself standing in an Egyptian barque, a celestial vessel designed not for crossing water but for traveling through time itself, as angel fish are pulled backward out of the water as if time is reversing for them, their rebellion forgiven as they return to their original stations like the fallen angels spoken of in the opening of Revelation.
And when his eyes finally open, Egypt burns and the pyramids crumble and the false church collapses as everything built on lies is swept away.
Why Did He Disappear
Lefebvre spent six years creating this film with his own money and had Hollywood knocking at his door when he finished, and he walked away from all of it without explanation. What did he see during those six years that made him want nothing to do with the fame being offered? What did he learn while rendering these images that convinced him success was meaningless compared to whatever truth he had glimpsed?
I have spent years analyzing this film and I have theories about every symbol, but I am not ready to share my analysis until I know my readers are seeing what I am seeing. This is one of the most important short films created in the last fifty years and almost nobody remembers it exists, especially Christians who should be paying the closest attention to what it is trying to say about the age we are approaching.
Watch it. Then come back here and tell me in the comments what you think it represents. Tell me which symbols burned themselves into your memory and what you felt when Christ opened his eyes. I want to have this conversation because the man who made this film considered it important enough to sacrifice his entire future to deliver it, and the least we can do is try to understand what he was desperate enough to say.
A Note From Lily and The Wise Wolf
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