(Phil Tippett, 2021, USA, 73 minutes)

Oscar-winning vfx legend Phil Tippett (Return of the Jedi, Jurassic Park) here makes his debut as a feature film director with his 30-years-in-the-making stop-motion animation passion project, Mad God. We could try to synopsize the plot (the official logline: “A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens”), but you’re going to want to come for the visionary world-building from an untethered imagination, the peerless stop-motion, and for an overall new experience in modern cinema.