Soccer balls and catcher’s mitts become tasty slices of deli meats in Submarine Sandwich, the latest amazing video from stop-motion auteur PES.
The Oscar-nominated director says it takes up to 12 hours to produce three seconds of his short films, which are creative in the extreme. His latest two-minute masterpiece, which premiered Wednesday on YouTube, is sweet meat for your hungry eyes.
Submarine Sandwich re-creates the look of an old-school New York City deli. One by one, bizarre ingredients get fed through the slicer and laid out to form the most outlandish hoagie ever seen.
Now that’s a sandwich artist at work.
“It’s an epic process to make a film like this,” the strangely named director says in a behind-the scenes video. “Everything that’s put on film is real, it’s in front of the camera. There are no computer-generated effects in my film whatsoever.”
The stop-motion master, whose food-tastic 2012 film Fresh Guacamole bagged an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short, uses everyday objects like footballs and dice as stand-ins for roast beef and other ingredients in his filmed flights of fancy.
In Fresh Guacamole, grenades become avocados and a green light bulb becomes a jalapeno. These and other whimsical ingredients all get diced up and mashed in a mortar and pestle to become a bowl of delicious green goo.
Submarine Sandwich was written and directed by PES, and animated by Dillon Markey and the director. It was funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $50,000 for the project.
“I want to tweak what you think of the familiar world around you,” he says in the Submarine Sandwich pitch video, “so that the next time you see the familiar world, you, too, can never look at it the same way again.”
