Fresh Guacamole (2012)
85th Academy Awards 2013
3/5 Stars
Nominated for 1 award.
Nominated for Short Film-Animated (PES).
Watched January 10, 2014.
Fresh Guacamole, the shortest short ever nominated for an Oscar, is a technically sound stop motion film by PES. A film that once went viral online, somehow, amazingly, garnered recognition from the Academy.
PES is well known on YouTube and other internet sites for producing some quality content, and this two minute feast is no different. It doesn't make any grand statements, although perhaps it was meant to, but instead practices film techniques and the art of stop motion to a T.
If you know how to make guacamole, or if you enjoy eating guacamole, or if art is in your DNA, you will probably enjoy this film. It takes the simple process of making guacamole but replaces the food items with (mostly) every day objects. The avocado is a grenade and the pit is a pool ball. The chips are poker chips and the tomatoes are tomato pin cushions. The human hands and avocado inards, as well as a few other items are as they should be, but the diced up tomato becomes red dice, the onion (a baseball) becomes dice as well, and so on.
The two minute short is slightly entertaining, mostly interesting, and pulls at a curious side of humanity that enjoys every day objects being used other than they should be. For example, I have always loved The Borrowers (a book and also a movie about tiny little people who live in the walls of houses), partly because of how they use human items in such interesting ways--thimbles as large drinking glasses, and so on.
If you have two spare minutes, I would encourage you to watch the video below to see flawless technique and a cute spin on a simple Mexican treat.
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