SYNOPSIS
"Mexican Standoff," a music video for the Dutch band Parson Brown, follows a three-sided love affair that goes absolutely wrong and the hearts that break along the way. Plympton uses pencil on paper, scanned and digitally composited.
SELECT FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
• World Premiere, 2008 Woodstock Film Festival
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Official Selection, 2009 Ashland Independent Film Festival
• Official Selection, 2009 Strasbourg International Film Festival
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Regarded as the Indie Animation King, Bill Plympton was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He moved to New York City, upon graduation from Portland State University in Graphic Design. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as New York Times, National Lampoon, Playboy and Screw. In 1987 he was nominated for an Oscar® for his short "Your Face". After producing many shorts which appeared on MTV and Spike and Mike's, he turned his talent to features. Since 1991 he's made 9 feature films, 6 of them, "The Tune", "Mondo Plympton", "I Married A Strange Person", "Mutant Aliens", "Hair High" and "Idiots and Angels" animated features. In 2005, Bill's received another Oscar® nomination, this time for a short film "Guard Dog".
Director's Statement: The first recollection I have of the concept was an event in 2005, when I was walking with a student at the Lille Short Film Festival in France, and he asked me what my next feature would be about. I declared, off-handedly, that it would be about an angel who didn’t want his wings, and as we discussed the idea, I really got to like the concept. That night, in my hotel room, I started to explore the dramatic possibilities of a reluctant angel. At that point, I had just finished production on “Hair High”, and although I thought it was a great film and would make me rich, it was a very difficult production - so, I decided that “Idiots and Angels” would be the exact opposite of “Hair High”. While “Hair High” was bright and colorful and fully animated, “Idiots” would be monochromatic and more limited in its animation. While “Hair High” had big-name actors providing voices, “Idiots” would only have music and sound effects, no dialogue at all. Because of that, I wanted music to play throughout - almost like a long opera - or an extended string of music videos. My recent short film “Shuteye Hotel” was a short rehearsal, an experiment done in the new style of “Idiots and Angels”, a dark and surreal Eastern European look.
Filmography: Idiots and Angels (2008), Hot Dog (2008), Guide Dog (2006), Hair High (2004), Guard Dog (2004), Mutant Aliens (2001), I Married a Strange Person (1998), Mondo Plympton (1997), Guns on the Clackamas (1995), J. Lyle (1994), The Tune (1992)
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SHOWTIMES
SUN. 5/17 at 4:30PM
Matinée Movie Lounge
CAST AND CREW
Production: Plymptoons
Writer: Bill Plympton
Producer: Bill Plympton
Cinematographer: Taylor Armstrong, Dan Pinto
Editor: Taylor Armstrong
Music: Parson Brown
SOURCES
Print Source and Production:
www.plymptoons.com |
