on March 22, 2007
This short is sure to elicit some nostalgic delight in anyone familiar with the old arcade games of the 1970s and 80s including Frogger and Space Invaders.
In Game Over, Pes (rhymes with “yes”) has recreated these iconic games using ordinary household items through the process of stop-motion animation—objects chosen not only for their formal characteristics but also for their interpretive meaning. In displaying Pac-Man, for example, all the characters are created using food items (pizza, eggs, etc.). Pes’s amazing attention to every detail makes this short so special (just look at the flame on the back of the Asteriods spaceship!) . You can view more Pes films online at his website Eat Pes.
Game Over is touring as a closer to the popular Animation Show 3, but you can save yourself $10 (and a long wait) and view it online for free.
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[...] dir: Suzie Templeton, 5:38—We like stop-motion animation here at ShortoftheWeek. The first two reviews we posted, Game Over and Creature Comforts were both stop-motion (though we’ve inexplicably ignored the form since), but we are not blind to the perceived diminishing of its stature. The dawn of CG brought about a lot of eulogizing on stop-motion animations behalf—the hallowed art of O’Brien and Harryhausen, was technologically doomed to become a lost art, or so it was said. To an extent that prognostication can be said to be true. Certainly the days of seeing even hints of stop-motion employed in big-budget films like Terminator or Willow are behind us, let alone carrying action films like one of my favorites, Clash of the Titans. The recent remake of King Kong, one of the greatest and most beloved stop-motion films, is proof in the pudding so to speak. But here we are over a decade into the era of full-cg and stop-motion clings stubbornly, dare we say, even vibrantly. [...]
[...] Plenty of more info on the film at its web page. Plus FilminFocus did a recent interview as part of its future of stop-motion feature, which stars SoTW featured filmmakers Kirsten Lepore and PES [...]