Stop Motion Wednesday: Western Spaghetti

How would you "cook" spaghetti with tomato sauce using nonfood ingredients? Well to find out I had to watch this outstanding bit of stop motion work from director/filmaker PES. The idea behind the short, called 'Western Spaghetti', is so simple yet because of the way it is pulled off is more than awesome to watch.

PES literally makes a bowl of spaghetti using everyday objects like Post-it Notes, a Rubik’s Cube and dollar bills... morphing them into key ingredients for a very conventional but at the same time unconventional meal. I love the way he turns the corn into flames, uses the post-it-notes as butter and the bubble wrap water is just a stroke of genius.

According to PES the ‘Western’ in the title refers to the endless supply of worthless, disposable modern junk that populates so much of our world. He goes on to say that there is beauty to be found in these objects and this is what inspired him to make 'Western Spaghetti'

TIME Magazine named "Western Spaghetti" the #2 Internet film of 2009. The film also won Honorable Mention at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Annecy International Animation Festival in June 2009. As if thats not enough 'Western Spaghetti' has also managed to garner more than 3 million views on YouTube. Not bad going...

Credits
Written and Directed by PES
Animated by PES and Javan Ivey
Edited by Sam Welch
Produced by Sarah Phelps