Mad God

“The final form of Mad God isn’t the film itself, but the memory after you watch it. It’s bringing you to that moment just after waking up from a dream, frozen, exploring fragments of your feral mind before they fade back into the shadows. That's the moment. Mad God is just a way to get you there.” That’s how director, animator and legendary SFX artist Phil Tippett, best known for his iconic and groundbreaking work on the Star Wars films and Jurassic Park, describes his animated feature Mad God – a passion project more than thirty years in the making. Dialogue-free, Tippett’s film is a highly visual experience, combining stop-motion animation, model-work, live-action and puppetry in ways never seen before. Set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists and war pigs, seen as if through the lens of Hieronymus Bosch crossed with Buster Keaton, the film is a unique, visceral and deeply disturbing experience. But to get to the point where you can start remembering Tippett’s nightmare, you have to see it first. Preferably on the big screen in Aero at The Shockproof Film Festival. Elementary, dear friends.