Unfortunately, legitimately unsettling cartoon horrors seem to be rare. Semiotically abstracted from reality as they are, flat 2D images can in theory create an intellectual conceptualization of something scary. But they frequently cannot evoke the same immediate visceral experience that…
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Horrifying Figures: Phil Tippett’s Mad God (2021) Reaffirms Stop-Motion’s Visceral Materiality
by Rachel Catlett • July 9, 2024 • 0 Comments
If a work of art is the sum of its parts, then the stop-motion animation Mad God (Tippett, 2021) has a very large sum indeed. Director Phil Tippett crafted this cinematic fever dream as a mad god himself, stitching together…