Chris Landreth has an imagination not of this world. But it's eerily rooted in the most mundane banality of human existence. You get the feeling that he looked so deep into boredom and despair that he found genius. And that we could, too.
The animation itself, grotesque yet beautiful, bursts with a kind of manic expressionism. You hardly know what's going on, but slowly you realize, that's the point. Landreth has utilized the breadth of the freedoms of CGI to pull the lid off his bizarre brain.
Talk about "thinking outside the box." It doesn't get much farther from the box than this. Watching Landreth's films is like getting a shot of adrenaline into your imagination. It's hard, as a filmmaker, to watch this film and not be terribly inspired by it.
Hopefully Landreth has some more projects up his sleeve -- I'm hooked.