Diets! Illness! The rain! Elliot Dear smashes through all of these January tropes with Wachowski-like flair to herald the coming of the BBC's Six Nations coverage.
Using motion-controlled in-camera wizardry and model-making Elliot recreates the "time-slice" technique, made famous in films such as The Matrix, leaving a rugby ball-shaped hole in the January blues.
Fans can follow the 2019 Six Nations on the BBC across TV, radio and online; starting with the opening game between France and Wales on Friday, February 1st.