Ruben Brandt, Collector

Ruben Brandt has rather eccentric nightmares in which he is attacked by some of humanity’s most famous artworks. Shot by Warhol’s Double Elvis, stabbed by one of the men in Hopper’s Nighthawks, and dragged to the bottom of the ocean by a mutated Botticelli Venus (with tentacles!): in order to combat these unpleasant dreams, psychotherapist Brandt commissions some of his criminal clients to steal the original artworks. Ruben Brandt, Collector is a hyper referential, action packed thunderstorm, garnished with a dash of Hungarian surrealism, and easily one of the coolest and most unforgettable animation films of the year.