Fresh Guacamole is a 2012 animated short Surrealist film directed by PES. The film was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film award at the 85th Academy Awards. The film shows a man making guacamole out of familiar objects that then become different objects when cut (for example, a baseball is cut in half and it turns into dice when diced). The film, like Microwaveable has that same sort of idea about taking the familiar and turning it into the surreal. When these recognizable objects turn into other seemingly unrelated recognizable objects, it creates not only a confusing feel but also almost a comedic one. This film plays off the Surreal comedy as it uses puns (baseball turns into dice when diced) to create some of this humor. The film appears to be shot as if it was a point-of-view, with a medium shot high angle - this again perhaps adds to the reliability of the environment - cooking and preparing food, but then adds a spin on it which is jarring for the spectator. This is helped by the usage of a method known as pixilation which helps create a far more realistic animated than other slightly animated ones (such as the third film, Lynch's Alphabet). The visual images in this film, while perhaps not conveying any form of narrative, do seem to have some related themes. The dice and the poker chips that are served with the guacamole has this theme of gambling or chance and the presence of the chess pieces and the Trivial Pursuit pieces/wedges has the theme of skill and games involved. Some of these objects do seem to have some overarching theme but there is no full narrative really created by these images. Overall, for my own Surrealist short film, I would take again the ideas of mixing the foreign with the realistic to create some juxtaposing images for the spectator but I would also take the ideas of the thematic relevance of each of these images. I don't believe a narrative is needed as I would argue that takes away the idea of that dream-like structure to the film but these themes help make the film open to some form of interpretation and allows for some form of message to be conveyed.
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