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Plonts
'Sisyphus'
12 August 2024 66s
Round the twist.
by Andrew MacGregor

Plonts invite viewers to scale a mountain of madness in a commercial for plant-based cheese. Kate Berlant ('Sorry to Bother You', 'Dream Scenario') plays a god who, er, forgot she'd banished a woman to a Sisyphean fate many moons ago. Played by Charly Clive ('Pure', 'All My Friends Hate'), the woman is condemned to roll a wheel of vegan cheese up a hill.

A plant-based diet was her attempt to save the planet by herself, but that is too much pressure on one person. A benevolent, absent-minded god, Berlant frees Clive with her laser eyes—not in a Homelander way, but melts the wheel that has been her prison for God knows how long.

The way she falls what should be to her death, only to stand in a lava flow of melted cheese, is superb, as is the use of miniatures, visual/practical effects, and graphics lifted straight from a lost infomercial. Batshit cheesy work in the best possible way.

Product Category: Cheese

Territory: USA



production
Blinkink
Director: Zach Tavel
Producer: Alexander Handschuh
EP: Josef Byrne
DOP: Jack Hamilton
Editor: Danny Scharar
VFX Artist: Simone Ghilardotti / John Moore

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Plonts
'Sisyphus'
12 August 2024 66s

Round the twist.

Plonts invite viewers to scale a mountain of madness in a commercial for plant-based cheese. Kate Berlant ('Sorry to Bother You', 'Dream Scenario') plays a god who, er, forgot she'd banished a woman to a Sisyphean fate many moons ago. Played by Charly Clive ('Pure', 'All My Friends Hate'), the woman is condemned to roll a wheel of vegan cheese up a hill.

A plant-based diet was her attempt to save the planet by herself, but that is too much pressure on one person. A benevolent, absent-minded god, Berlant frees Clive with her laser eyes—not in a Homelander way, but melts the wheel that has been her prison for God knows how long.

The way she falls what should be to her death, only to stand in a lava flow of melted cheese, is superb, as is the use of miniatures, visual/practical effects, and graphics lifted straight from a lost infomercial. Batshit cheesy work in the best possible way.

Product Category: Cheese

Territory: USA



production
Blinkink
Director: Zach Tavel
Producer: Alexander Handschuh
EP: Josef Byrne
DOP: Jack Hamilton
Editor: Danny Scharar
VFX Artist: Simone Ghilardotti / John Moore

Plonts 12 August 2024
'Sisyphus' 66s

Round the twist.

by Andrew MacGregor

Plonts invite viewers to scale a mountain of madness in a commercial for plant-based cheese. Kate Berlant ('Sorry to Bother You', 'Dream Scenario') plays a god who, er, forgot she'd banished a woman to a Sisyphean fate many moons ago. Played by Charly Clive ('Pure', 'All My Friends Hate'), the woman is condemned to roll a wheel of vegan cheese up a hill.

A plant-based diet was her attempt to save the planet by herself, but that is too much pressure on one person. A benevolent, absent-minded god, Berlant frees Clive with her laser eyes—not in a Homelander way, but melts the wheel that has been her prison for God knows how long.

The way she falls what should be to her death, only to stand in a lava flow of melted cheese, is superb, as is the use of miniatures, visual/practical effects, and graphics lifted straight from a lost infomercial. Batshit cheesy work in the best possible way.

Product Category: Cheese

Territory: USA



production
Blinkink
Director: Zach Tavel
Producer: Alexander Handschuh
EP: Josef Byrne
DOP: Jack Hamilton
Editor: Danny Scharar
VFX Artist: Simone Ghilardotti / John Moore