Iconic artist of cinema Phil Tippett lets loose in 'Mad God,' his most distinct vision to date.
The anarchic animated horror film Mad God, out Thursday on Shudder, has been in the works for more than 30 years. Yes, you read that right. According to the Kickstarter campaign that brought the potential of the film’s completion back into reality, there was the creation of "several minutes of stop-motion animation in 1990." However, work soon ground to a halt as its creator began to work on other projects.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Regrettably, when evaluating past similarly prolonged passion projects, the expectations we build for them tend to never be met by whatever ends up being finished. Mad God is a work that actually surpasses any ideas we have for it, making use of the technique of stop-motion animation unlike any other film out there.
This is precisely what the film is well-suited for as the techniques are all expertly done though still clearly artificial. It resembles reality while still containing a whole host of strange sequences. What Tippett has done with it creates a mesmerizing yet melancholic impact on the viewer.
This sense of uncertainty and disorder becomes the most prevailing aspect of what Tippett has created. His world can be both ugly and captivating, though it is always a second away from upheaval. Destruction is only a heartbeat away, seen in the increasingly proximate mushroom cloud explosions that dominate the landscape. We are always on the cusp of a complete and total oblivion of our own making that will send us into darkness.
This is all part of what makes it a rather grim experience, though not excessively so. If anything, Tibbett finds a catharsis amidst the chaos. In a scene that can be read as the creation of the universe from the ashes, we see infinite potential explode outward in a kaleidoscopic burst of colors. While the destination that returns back to seems to again bring further destruction, an inevitable cycle of life and death, there is a sense that rebirth is possible in Tibbett’s imagination.
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