Years active 2007–present Nationality English, British | Height 1.88 m Other names KickThePj, Peej, PJ | |
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Notable work Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures
The Forever Train
Colour Bandits
Hair And Brimstone Awards Virgin Media Award for, "PJ, Tiny Planet Explorer." Nominations Shorty Award for Best in Art Similar Phil Lester, Dan Howell, PewDiePie, Louise Pentland, Emma Blackery Profiles | ||
PJ Liguori is a British video blogger and filmmaker. His most notable work is the comedy fantasy web series Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures. In July 2016, his main channel, KickThePJ on YouTube, reached 1 million subscribers.
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History
Liguori was born in Peterborough, England on 11 December 1990. He went to the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, England, and graduated in 2013. He became a British citizen on 29 March 2015. He specialises in short films that usually have some degree of psychedelia, space, or fantasy embedded in them. His contributions to his short films most often consist of the multi-talents of writing screenplay, directing, songwriting, creating props, acting, producing, editing, sound, costume, and soundtrack.
Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures
In late 2014, Liguori partnered with New Form Digital to create a 10 minute short film pilot entitled Oscar's Hotel. The film follows a young man named Oliver who goes to visit his uncle's hotel, which turns out to host unusual guests: monsters. A particular monster suddenly wreaks havoc in the hotel, and Oliver—amongst newfound friends—conquer the beast. Liguori announced in April 2015 that Oscar's Hotel would be funded and picked up as a six-episode web series by Vimeo, entitled Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures. The series was produced by New Form Digital and The Jim Henson Company. The first episode of the web series aired on Vimeo on 15 September 2015, and one episode aired per week over the course of six weeks.
Colour Bandits
In late 2013, Liguori released a video on his YouTube channel (KickthePJ) by the title "Colour Bandits". This film depicts Liguori as a "Colour Bandit" wearing all white and caked in white makeup. Liguori also narrates saying, "sitting before you is not a man, but merely a cracked shell, a shell of the lightest pastels to the darkest hues, ... except to desaturate worlds and leave completely unfazed, do not be amazed, for Colour Bandits have no morals these days." While he saying this the "Colour Bandit" gets destroyed with different colours.
Hair and Brimstone
Released in mid-2016, the short nineteen-minute film Hair and Brimstone follows the dark and twisted adventures of Hades, Aubrey & Robin in their hair salon, Hair and Brimstone.