{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"How to Survive: Mad God (2021)","description":"How to Survive is now on Patreon! Support us at Patreon.com\/HowtoSurvivePod to get every episode one week early, plus monthly bonus episodes and more. It\u2019s episode 286\u2026and I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle it shall be appalled by it. Mad God (2021) is the singular vision of Phil Tippett, the stop motion genius behind Star Wars\u2019 AT-ATs and RoboCop\u2019s ED-209. Over the course of 30 years he slowly created what some believe to be his opus\u2013Mad God\u2013a nightmarish film with very little clear story, but an awful lot of grotesque imagery. We talk about a film that is both an impressive technical exercise and a hollow procession of misery, the nauseating levels of skill required to produce it, whether we\u2019d be sad if Gromit died and whether the individual behind dozens of screens showing a babbling baby\u2019s face should give more thought to workplace safety. All of which leads to one question: How would you survive? Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: Your land shall become a desolation and your cities a ruin. Next month, we\u2019re watching a couple of \u2018Space Madness\u2019 films - Solaris (1972) and Aniara (2018). ","author_name":"How to Survive","author_url":"http:\/\/howtosurvive.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/31074218\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/31074218"}