Adam Pesapane (born May 26, 1973), known by the pseudonym PES, is an American director and animator. He has created several

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films and commercials, which has earned him nominations for an

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and an Emmy Award. After receiving a B.A. in English Literature at the

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, PES migrated to film as a storytelling medium. He earned critical acclaim for the short film ''

Fresh Guacamole ''Fresh Guacamole'' is a 2012 American animated short film written and directed by PES (Adam Pesapane). The film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards; at 1 minute and 40 seconds, it is the shortest film ever n ...

'' (2012), which was nominated for the

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,"Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards", ''Oscars.org'', January 10, 2013
/ref> making it the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar.
/ref> He created "Paper", a commercial for Honda Motor Co., which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial in 2016. PES' distinct use of everyday objects and stop-motion animation has garnered a positive reception from critics and audiences. His other known works are the short films ''Roof Sex'', ''KaBoom!'', ''Game Over'' and ''Western Spaghetti''.

Early life

Pesapane was born on May 26, 1973 in

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, the son of an elementary school principal and a hairdresser."Meet PES, the Stop-Motion Genius Who Turns Grenades Into Fresh Guacamole", WIRED.com, November 17, 2012
/ref> The name "PES" is a family nickname deriving from the Italian surname "Pesapane". Pesapane grew up in an Italian-American household in the Budd Lake section of

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"Oscars 2013: Budd Lake's PES nominated for best animated short for appetizing ''Guacamole''"
NJ Advance Media for

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, February 24, 2013. Accessed December 1, 2017. "Maybe you, like Adam Pesapane, have glanced at a mound of avocados in the supermarket and mistook them, for a moment, for a stockpile of grenades.... The Budd Lake native and Delbarton graduate is nominated for best animated short for "Fresh Guacamole," an infectiously entertaining stop-motion wonder that clocks in at one minute and 40 seconds, the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar." He attended

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, one of the nation's top private high schools, where he began exhibiting and selling his artwork. Pesapane attended the

as an Echols Scholar. In 1995 he earned a B.A. in English Literature and wrote his senior thesis on

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's '' Ulysses''. In addition to his English degree, Pesapane studied printmaking throughout all four years of college. He wrote and illustrated his own books, hand printing them using 15th-century techniques, and even made the paper they were printed on by pulping his own underwear."Fairly Long Interview with the Director of the Shortest Film Ever Nominated for an Academy Award", in ''1985'', Jonathan Mayor, 2014
/ref>"Oscars: PES aims for a long shelf life with 'Fresh Guacamole' buzz", ''Los Angeles Times'', John Horn, February 23, 2013
/ref> In his senior year at U.Va, Pesapane lived on

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, one of the University's highest honors. He lived at 33 West Lawn, in the room directly above the cornerstone of the University set by Thomas Jefferson in 1817. After graduation, Pesapane moved to New York City where he landed his first job in the creative department of

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, a large advertising agency. He was hired because the agency's creative recruiter liked his portfolio of etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs, even though they bore no relevance to advertising. Once inside the agency, Pesapane had daily exposure to award-winning commercials, short films, and music videos from around the world and first began thinking about making a film of his own. He cites the work of the Swedish directing collective ''Traktor'',

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, and Spike Jonze as influences from this period. In 1998, while still working at the agency, Pesapane made his first film, a live-action short called ''Dogs of War''. Based on a dream Pesapane had about hot dogs being dropped as bombs, the 48-second film "anticipates PES's animation work through the use of absurd humor, placing everyday objects in unfamiliar situations and slick editing that clearly shows the influence of advertising films."

Career

2000s

PES's first animated film, ''Roof Sex'' which was released in June 2001, features two life-sized chairs having sex on a New York rooftop. Though only a minute long, the film took 20 shooting days to complete."The Making of Roof Sex" by PES
/ref> Having no prior experience with animation, PES taught himself how to animate by doing tests with doll furniture in his NYC apartment. In 2002, ''Roof Sex'' won the ''Best First Film'' award at the

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. ''Roof Sex'' was featured at over 100 film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. The war short ''KaBoom!'' (2004) was instrumental in defining the artist's personal style and approach to animating objects. The film features an atomic airstrike on a miniature city using children's toys and festive objects such as gift bows, Christmas ornaments, and clown-head cupcake toppers. Originally commissioned by

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as part of its "Diesel Dreams" advertising campaign which launched in August 2004, ''KaBoom!'' was included on a DVD (along with 29 other short films) that was given away in stores worldwide when a pair of jeans was purchased. A "Making of ''KaBoom!''" narrated by PES is available on the director's website and gives insight into the logic behind the object use and selection. In October 2006 PES released his short ''Game Over'', PES recreated classic arcade death sequences (from the games Centipede,

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, and Pac-Man) with familiar objects including muffins, toy cars, insects, pizza and fried eggs. The film was inspired by an interview with

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, the creator of Pac-Man, who said the original source of inspiration for the Pac-Man character was a pizza with a slice missing. In July 2016, PES published a newly remastered HD version of ''Game Over'' on his YouTube Channel. In July 2008, PES released his short ''Western Spaghetti''. The film shows PES cooking spaghetti (the hands in the film are PES's) but all the ingredients in the dish are replaced with objects such as tomato pin cushions, rubber bands, Rubik's Cubes, post-it notes, and bubblewrap, and all are brought to life through stop-motion animation. TIME Magazine named "Western Spaghetti" the #2 Internet film of 2008 in its "Top Ten of Everything 2008". The film also won an Honorable Mention at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at the

in June 2009. In November 2007 PES launched his own version of the classic "Yule Log" television program, creating a miniature fireplace loop using pretzel logs and candy corn animated in stop-motion. It was the world's first animated "Yule Log." Originally released in an edition of 1000 DVDs, the film is now available to stream in 4K on the director's YouTube Channel. PES has also directed over 75 TV commercials, including spots for The Gates Notes (2021),

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(2019)

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(2017, 2016, 2015), Android (2015),

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(2011), Washington State Lottery (2010),

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(2008), Sprint (2007), Sneaux Shoes ("Human Skateboard", 2007),

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(2006),

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(2005), and

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(2005). The commercial for Sneaux, "Human Skateboard", became an internet phenomenon in 2007, amassing millions of views online. In June 2008 Director

was quoted in ''Paste'' magazine as saying "Clicking on a PES film is to open a safe and suddenly see a million ideas glittering and exploding. The only reason you close the door is to re-open it just after and discover what will pop this time."

2010s

In December 2010, PES's short "The Deep" premiered in Episode 1 of Showtime Network's "Short Stories" series (PES's films were the source of inspiration for the series). "The Deep" features various metallic objects including old hand tools, nut crackers, calipers, film lenses, faucet knobs, chains, skeleton keys, a bike horn, a belt of bullets, and a piece of a flute that come to life as mysterious sea creatures. The film is an imaginary

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. In March 2012, PES released ''

'', a follow-up to his stop-motion short "Western Spaghetti" (2008). The film features familiar objects such as grenades, a baseball, dice, Christmas tree bulbs, a miniature golf ball, and poker chips that are transformed into a dish of guacamole. In January 2013, "Fresh Guacamole" was nominated for the

. It is the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar. The film premiered as part of Showtime's "Short Stories" series online and on TV. Showtime's YouTube posting of "Fresh Guacamole" amassed 3.5 million hits in its first 4 days online. Of the initial idea, PES says "I had the core idea of a grenade as an avocado. Even though this type of grenade is referred to as a "Pineapple Grenade" I've always thought they looked more like avocados. I built the film around this idea, filling in the blanks and ingredients around it.""PES dices with magic", ''1.4 magazine (UK)'', March 2012
/ref> As in "Western Spaghetti", the hands in the film are PES's. After being nominated for an

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, ''Fresh Guacamole'' was released along with all the other 15 Oscar-nominated short films in theaters by ShortsHD. On December 8, 2014, PES released ''Submarine Sandwich'', the third film in his stop-motion food film trilogy, and the follow-up film to ''Fresh Guacamole''. The film is set in an old Italian deli in which all the meats and cold cuts have been substituted with vintage athletic equipment such as boxing gloves (

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), footballs (

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), baseball gloves (

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), hockey gloves ( wieners),

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s, old

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s and soccer balls (various cheeses). The film depicts the construction of a large

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in which all the ingredients are non edible items such as Slinky toys, shredded US currency,

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reels, etc, which are chosen because of their resemblance in some way to the ingredients they represent. As in ''Fresh Guacamole'' and ''Western Spaghetti'' the hands featured in the film are PES's. The role of the butcher in the film is also played by PES, the first time the director has made a

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in one of his own films. The film was sponsored by

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(and was shot on the

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camera) and the remainder of the funding was raised through Kickstarter. PES has stated that he got the idea for the film when he saw a Hobart 410 "Streamliner"

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in an exhibit of industrial design at the

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and was struck by the image of slicing a boxing glove in it. On March 12, 2012, ''

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'' reported that PES was set to direct a feature film based on the

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trading card series originally published by

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in 1985. The film was to be based on a story by PES and writer Michael Vukadinovich. Former

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CEO

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was set to produce the film through Eisner's

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. The film was later cancelled."Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company Behind Feature Adaptation Of ‘Garbage Pail Kids’", ''Deadline.com'', March 12, 2012
/ref> On November 17, 2012, ''Wired'' magazine reported that PES has a second feature film project in development entitled "Lost & Found." Based on an original idea and incorporating the director's signature style, PES is teaming up with and Katz/Smith Productions and the writer

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on story development. His commercial for Honda, "Paper", received an Emmy Award Nomination for "Outstanding Commercial of 2016" in addition to picking up many advertising industry awards in 2016, including a Gold Lion at Cannes, a Gold Pencil at The One Show as well as The One Show's "Automobile Advertising of the Year Award". It was also selected to the permanent collection at the

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at the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. In August 2016 a new commercial PES directed for the

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premiered during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics. Officially called "The Power of Ridgeline", the spot is the director's largest production to date and features workers (who appear as ghosted blurred streaks) building a massive version of the Honda Logo utilizing materials they brought to the location using Ridgeline pickup trucks. The film was mostly shot in-camera and features a mixture of long exposure photography, stop-motion animation, live-action, and CGI.

Filmography

Short films

* ''Lens Smash'' (2018) * ''Still Life'' (2018) * ''Submarine Sandwich'' (2014) * ''Black Gold'' (2014) * ''

'' (2012) * ''The Deep'' (2010) * ''Western Spaghetti'' (2008) * ''The Fireplace'' (aka ''Yule Log'') (2007) * ''My Pepper Heart'' * ''Cake Countdown'' (2007) * ''Game Over'' (2006) * ''Making of KaBoom!'' * ''KaBoom!'' (2004) * ''Fireworks'' (2004) * ''Making of Roof Sex'' * ''Pee-Nut'' (2003) * ''Drowning Nut'' * ''Baby Nut'' * ''Moth'' * ''Marriage is for...'' * ''Prank Call'' (2003) * ''Rogue Peanut'' * ''Roof Sex'' (2001) * ''Dogs of War'' (first film, 1998)

Commercials

* The Gates Notes "Mosquito Week" (2021) * Corona x Parley "THE FISH" (2019) * Samsung "Octopus" and "Ice Block" (2018) * Hoka One One "Bondi" and "Yee-Haw!" (2018) * Honda "Clarity" (2017) * Honda "The Power of Ridgeline" (2016) * Android "Fingerprints" (2015) * Honda "Paper" (2015) * Lipton "Mussel Beach" (2015) * Ford Italia Tennis - 5 Vines (2015) * Samsung Galaxy K Zoom - 3 Vines (2014) * CitizenM Hotels "Swan Song" (2014) * Het Klokhuis (Title Sequence) (2013) (NL) * Kinder Surprise (2011) (UK) * Washington State Lottery (2010) * Scrabble "60th Anniversary" (2008) * More Than "Journey"(2008)(UK) * More Than "Motor"(2007)(UK) * More Than "Home"(2007)(UK) * Sprint (2007) * Sneaux Shoes "Human Skateboard" (2007) * PlayStation PSP "Fred" (2006) (UK) * PlayStation PSP "Milo & Maria" (2006 (UK) * Orange Telecom "Socks" (2006) (UK) * Blue Cross (2005) * Coinstar "Gift" (2005) * Coinstar "Book" (2005) * Bacardi Coco (2005) * Bacardi Razz (2005) * Bacardi Apple (2005) * Bacardi Limon (2005) * Coinstar "Inspired Coins" (2005) * Los Angeles Dodgers "Bobbleheads" (2005) * Nike "Wild Horses Redux" (2003) * MoveOn.org "Missing" (2003) * Glacier Glove * The Learning Channel "Beasty Boy" * Tic Tac "Whittlin' Wood"

References

External links

*
PESfilm.com
Director's website. Selected films available here. *
Director's Facebook page
Some behind-the-scenes material here.
LATimes feature on PES
in ''Los Angeles Times'', February 23, 2013
Chapter on PES
in ''Animators Unearthed'', Continuum, 2010
PES interview in Animation World Network
in ''AWN'', February 2013
PES interview in Salon
in ''Salon'', February 2013
Make Magazine article
on ''Western Spaghetti'', June 2010
PES talks Directing Commercials
in ''Directing Animation'', Allworth Press, 2010
WIRED article on PES
in ''WIRED'', November 2012
"The Deep" interview with PES
at Motionographer, January 2011
"Fresh Guacamole" Interview with PES
in ''1.4 magazine (UK)'', March 2012
PES set to direct Garbage Pail Kids movie
at Deadline.com, March 2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pes American animated film directors American animated film producers Stop motion animators University of Virginia alumni Delbarton School alumni Animators from New Jersey Living people 1973 births People from Dover, New Jersey People from Mount Olive Township, New Jersey