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I like to think that my films are short, eye-popping and colourful, like film candy - you can eat a lot of them and keep serving them to yourself. You serve candy out of someone’s throat to yourself. I like how they’re both sweet but also a little sinister. I liked that it was vaguely reminiscent of Pez, the candy. There was a moment, once I began putting my work out, where I had to decide that I would leave behind my real name and sign under this other identity. My friends called me that when I was a kid, and the name stuck. My last name is Pesapane and growing up with an Italian last name that no one can pronounce generally creates nicknames for you. PES has been a nickname ever since I was little. If there are any regrets in my life, it is that I was too serious when I was young. I got a degree in English literature, so was quite a serious student. I went to a very good university on an academic scholarship and I studied a lot. I was a printmaker in college and started experimenting with different forms of printmaking there, but at school I was an academic kid. My artistic impulse was there throughout school. I suppose I still can make one of my own, time is not done for that. It is just such an interesting category for me. Treasures and things that are out of print. Now that I have children of my own, I have a pretty formidable collection of children’s books. My father would read me books every night.

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I was once asked who my favourite movie star was, and I said Woody Woodpecker.

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My parents really didn’t even let me watch TV when I was growing up. He used to take us out to paint watercolours in the country and I was very impressed with all his work.Ībove: PES at 5 years old, pondering the Jupiter Effect My very first art lessons were with an illustrator. I thought I was going to be a children’s writer/illustrator for a long time. I had an early fascination with children’s books. Once I started thinking about what I was going to do with my life, I figured ‘how am I going to wake up every day and make things? How am I going to get my ideas out there into the world?’. I think my entire childhood was about discovering my own artistic abilities.

I was quite good at drawing and I used to draw my own books. We grew up in New Jersey with that little combination. My mother is a hairdresser and my retired father was an elementary school principal for many years. I saw it on TV and was terrified of going to sleep that night. It was where the planets line up on one side of the sun in a straight line and supposedly cause massive devastation and destruction on earth. My earliest memory is probably hearing about a thing called The Jupiter Effect. We chatted to the director in his Santa Monica home to get insights into his upbringing, his influences and the off-kilter way he views the world. Making a name with beloved shorts including Western Spaghetti, Submarine Sandwich and Game Over, PES’ ability was recognised in 2013 with an Oscar nomination for Fresh Guacamole (with an additional accolade of being the shortest film ever nominated). Alongside that, his work for brands has seen awards fly his way, most notably in 2016 with Paper for Honda picking up Cannes Lions and an Emmy. There’s something deliciously shareable about PES. Be it the work of the LA-based director or his homophone candy namesake, the description is the same: tiny, sweet nuggets of joy that are custom-made for binging.įinding fame in 2001 with his Jan Švankmajer-inspired short Roof Sex, PES 's incredible ability to convert everyday objects into chucklesome lookalikes through animation has seen him pick up dozens of honours and over 450,000,000 views on YouTube.