Death is a Giant Peanut

Death is a Giant Peanut is a 2025 animated short film (approximately 7 minutes) directed by Amy Boisvert as her CalArts BFA thesis in Character Animation. A young girl suffers a severe allergic reaction to a peanut, which sends her to purgatory. There she encounters the apparition of Death, personified as a giant peanut. Rather than a frightening confrontation, the two form an unexpected, warm bond. The film explores themes of grief, mortality, and emotional processing, with reviewers noting it conveys that there is no time limit on grief and that sometimes people simply need to hear that truth. The visual tone is described as warm and human despite cold, desolate purgatory backdrops, with a whimsical animation style that creates an intentional paradox with the weighty subject matter. The film blends humor and sweetness with genuine emotional depth. Specific scene-by-scene detail is unavailable as the film is a short-run student production with minimal published plot coverage.

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