The Tipping Point: Neoliberal Desire in Popular Global Art Cinema identifies a segment of global art cinema with a flexible yet recurring structure that has since become a popular form. Because of its increased visibility through the award circuit, popular global art cinema competes with the blockbuster in its capacity to generate social media discourse, despite incorporating several experimental traits, such as an open-ended narrative structure and formal experimentation. As a broadly resonant aesthetic structure, popular global art cinema reflects the logics of a neoliberal form of capitalist desire through the relationships it self-reflexively enacts between its experimental and classical forms, which is compulsive in nature as progress is sought but continually undone. In mapping this formal structure, I find a site of heightened potential to let go of a neoliberal desire and potentially “tip” into another, which I refer to as the tipping point. Throughout, I examine the constraints involved in the conditions of emergence that necessarily accompany a tipping point and eventually identify a sub-category I describe as “all-incomplete” art cinema, which distributes its libidinal investments through a form of sensation and relation that is more conducive to this endeavor.