He continues to attend festivals as either filmmaker or juror and has mentored short film directors in both the UK and overseas.
'Soft' is shocking and violent, and ingeniously, intimately upsetting in a way I can only compare to the controversial scenes in Gaspar Noé's Irréversible.
Alongside short films by Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo del Toro, Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and many others, Ellis is the only director to feature twice in the series.
Each video is a single-take documentary of the actual live recordings, initially released virally in chronological album order via YouTube, amassing millions of views.
In these days of violence and shocking gornography, it's hard to be sickened by anything on TV – but when the stabbed guy realises he's dying (if you choose that option), my stomach turned.