Fresh Guacamole is a 2012 Stop Motion-animated Short Film by American animator Adam Pesapane (better known by his pseudonym PES) about a man who makes guacamole out of some unusual ingredients.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 86th Academy Awards. It's noteworthy for being the shortest film to be nominated for an Oscar, at 1 minute and 40 seconds.
The short can be watched online here
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Fresh Guacamole provides examples of:
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The short is named after the dip that the man is preparing throughout.
- Minimalist Cast: The only character in the entire short is PES himself, and even then, only his hands can be seen.
- No Plot? No Problem!: The short doesn't have a plot other than a man making guacamole, and it's instead a showcase of PES' pixilation style.
- Silence Is Golden: No dialogue at all in the short, though considering the minimalist story, it's not like it's needed.
- Stop Motion: The entire film is made using pixilation, with PES' hands moving across the screen to grab, cut up and serve the different ingredients. Items also transform into other items between frames, such as a Christmas light being cut up into Monopoly houses.
- Visual Pun: Most of the items used to make the guacamole are look-alikes, but some puns are thrown in too.
- When the baseball (which resembles an onion) and pincushion (a tomato) are cut, they turn into dice. They are literally being diced.
- The guacamole is served with a side of chips. No, not potato chips; poker chips.
