Les Bêtes - stop-motion animation by Michael Granberry - exotic figures, sensational, nightmarish, grotesque, cleverly done... But clever? In what ways? What do we learn from it? How do we benefit from viewing this? In what ways is it excessive? In what ways does it reflect aesthetic "deficits"? What might Aristotle observe, formally and casually? What might Plato say? What might Xenophon advise?