It's not often that we're home to animated shorts in these parts but this Steve Coogan-voiced effort is well worth making an exception for. Entitled The Beautiful City, it's a noir set in a night-time metropolis and salted with the fatalism of 24 Hour Party People.
99 John - a drug dealer operating out of the back of an ice-cream van - is our conduit to this weird and wonderful world. This is not a man who's interesting in putting a flake in that; his business is flogging pills from the back of the van and wryly chronicling the goings-on of the city. The hitch? He's mute, making us his only witnesses.
This episode is the first in a series of animations that'll be available for free download later in the year and feature the voice talents of Kathy Burke, Keith Allen and Howard Marks.
Head to The Beautiful City website for more on the series.