Created at CalArts, this animated short combines stop-motion with hand-drawn and hand-painted animation techniques, incorporating real chocolate as both a material and thematic device. The film follows Piet, a character who inhabits the upper canopy of a fantastical chocolate forest. Upon consuming the confection, Piet is launched into a euphoric, sensory journey that mirrors the endorphin rush associated with chocolate's bittersweet allure. Blending tactile textures with expressive movement, the work explores themes of indulgence, desire, and escapism, offering a whimsical yet visceral meditation on the emotional and physical responses triggered by sensory pleasure.

The use of real chocolate in the film speaks to a broader interest in incorporating food as a material within Bliss’s artistic practice—a strategy that acknowledges the deeply emotive and sensory dimensions of consumption. Food, with its immediate associations to memory, comfort, ritual, and the body, functions here not merely as subject matter but as a tactile and symbolic substance. By embedding edible elements within the process of animation, Bliss invites a multi-sensory reading of the work, positioning food as both medium and metaphor. This approach underscores the potential of culinary materials to evoke emotional resonance and to collapse the distance between the viewer and the artwork, grounding the fantastical within the corporeal.

Screened at the Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, USA