The unsettling quality of the animation’s visual style really struck me. The character ‘Ben,’ a choirboy who abruptly loses his voice at a peak note, looks like a personified steamed dumpling—you can see his throbbing insides through his jelly-like skin. Following this vocal mishap, he runs from his church and ventures into the desert, where he dozes off. He’s then roused by some wandering musicians resembling ‘Mad M…