Game Over

a trip across old video games. good occasion of fascination about the art of PES and to remind old times. and this is the source of fascination . because it is a work of admirable master in stop motion wise use, creating a fascinating world , in which detail by detail becomes piece of a world with new and extravagant senses but, like in the art of Hieronymus Bosh, everything becomes plausible and normal. so, eulogy to old video games. in splendid manner.

Probably one of my favorite pieces by PES. It has the same good quality trademark stop-motion animation that all of his films have, but we have moved from the table to the video-console of the 1980s. If you love or loved those primitive child-like super-addictive video-games and their brain-penetrating music, you will love this short. Well, not much story, the story is told in the few lines of the plot. A game in your video-console, where all the backgrounds and characters you know are there, but just reproduced by using daily-life ordinary objects and products. The images are full-on, with lots of action, and one of the most difficult pieces to assemble regarding the filming, I would say. The short is fun and charming, it really transported me to my childhood. It is too minutes long, but I think that is the right time for a video-game game! ha!

I have seen quite a few films by PES and I must say all of them have two major things in common--various household objects are used is VERY unusual manners using stop-motion AND they are all way too short. Now during the one to two minutes they are on, they are terrific--but still, they are only one or two minute films. Recently, I was surprised that despite the shortness of these films, one ("Guacamole") managed to receive an Oscar nomination! However, "Game Over" (which is probably better than "Guacamole") was not nominated--perhaps it just didn't qualify. Regardless, people who remember the early 80s will love this film, as it takes some old school video games and re-creates them using weird objects--such as sharks' teeth, flowers, candy corn and more. It is a truly innovative style and lots of fun...but too short.

This is one of the best shorts by PES I felt genuine tension and fear that Frogger would be run over Very hectic and fast paced just like a true arcade experience