In the video, Stoltz explains how a team of just five people pulled off almost 500 visual effects shots in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” This stands in sharp contrast to the long lists of names you will see in the closing credits of most effects-heavy movies. Kwan goes on to explain that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” uses a combination of visual effects and practical effects such as puppets. Scheinert says they did “a lot of wire removal,” while both directors relate how they achieved the look of Yeoh’s character, Evelyn Wang, jumping between universes by cutting together shots of Yeoh with handheld stock footage that Kwan had filmed on the streets of New York.

It’s pretty amazing to hear that they were, in Kwan’s words, using “the 99 cents store version” of the LED screens that big-budget tentpoles like the “Star Wars” movies would use. The overall impression is that of a film fashioned out of makeshift materials that nonetheless managed to come together as something special.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in theaters now.