Salesman Pete

When I saw this yes­ter­day, my eyes were sweat­ing with excite­ment, then my jaw fell right on my lit­tle toe and made me cry even more. This is all fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing of course… hon­est! I’m not sure what I liked more, the mad, shotgun-style cre­ative pat­tern (or lack of it) that becomes obvi­ous just by lis­ten­ing to the script or the lov­ingly crafted ani­ma­tion and graph­ics. You could pick a frame at ran­dom and frame it. This short is truly a cel­e­bra­tion to creativity.

I pic­ture the brain-storming ses­sion, every­one involved opened their brains’ room and said, ok go out and bring back home what­ever you wish, and all the brains leave in a Tas­man­ian Devil fash­ion, bring­ing back home, well, almost every­thing. So they put every­thing in.

And it works.

Pete is a nice and clumsy sales­man. But he’s also a deadly super secret agent with a micro­proces­sor implanted into his brain by some mad sci­en­tists from the gov­erne­ment ! He has to secretly stop a bunch of badguys who stole a magic stone that can change any­thing into seafood!

Directed by: Marc Bouyer, Max Louba­resse, and Anthony Vivien. Music: Cyrille Marchesseau and Sound Design: Mael Vignaux.