Patrick Boivin is a force of nature. A self-taught writer, director and animator from Quebec, he makes amazing live-action and stop-motion-animated shorts, often all by himself. He once told me that there are so many things he’d like to accomplish in his work that if he lived 50 more years it wouldn’t be enough time. I believed him.

As of this writing, his masterpiece is Radio. (Boivin has completed two other shorts that he promises are on the same level as Radio, but I haven’t seen them yet.) It’s the story of a schizophrenic hospital orderly who buys a radio that never seems to shut off. The film’s mastery of tone, its structure and its bleak cinematography are nothing short of astonishing. Most of his other live-action work can be viewed on the PhylactereCola channel, which features a collection of shorts from the French Canadian TV show Boivin was involved in earlier this decade.

Most of the rest of the videos on this channel are stop-motion shorts that Boivin created with his favorite toys, like Transformers and Boba Fett. You’ve never seen stop-motion like this. The blocking and camerawork are as elaborate as anything in a big-budget Hollywood action movie.

The mad genius is currently developing four feature projects. I think we’re witnessing the embryonic stages of a major film artist. Imagine getting to see what Steven Spielberg was up to before he broke into the mainstream with Duel. This channel is not to be missed.