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Bill Plympton presents his “films fatales”
Bill Plympton, world-renowned American cartoonist and director of animated feature
and short films has won many awards for his often very provocative author films and
has been nominated for an Academy Award twice. He compiled a list of his “film fatales“,
animated short films that he likes, loves and was influenced by, exclusively
for Anifilm.
Quasi at the Quackadero
Sally Cruikshank | USA | 1975 | 10 min
Two misfit ducks and a robot go to an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited.
Black Hula
Marv Newland | Canada | 1988 | 5 min
Black Hula is a humorous view of aliens and the effect of their interplanetary “missionaries”.
Sing Beast Sing
Marv Newland | Canada | 1981 | 9 min
The Sing Beast Sing storyline is often described as offbeat with deadpan humour, and laden with detail. The film has won several major festival awards and attracted the attention of documentary film maker, Les Blank, who packaged the animation for distribution with his Burden of Dreams, a film documenting German director Werner Herzog’s feature film production of Fitzcarraldo.
Bathtime in Clerkenwell
Alex Budovsky | UK | 2002 | 3 min
This animation is based on Stephen Coates composition under the same title. This prize-winning music video is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks.
Roof Sex
PES | USA | 2002 | 2 min
PES’s first animated film features two life-sized chairs having sex on a New York rooftop. Film was featured at over 100 film festivals worldwide and won numerous
awards.
Delivery
Patrick Smith | USA | 2003 | 8 min
Abuse leads to rage as two friends compete for a delivered package. Was the result of this conflict worth the prize found within the box? Delivery deals with the realistic consequences of rage and violence, even within a cartoon setting.
Lupo the Butcher
Danny Antonucci | Canada | 1987 | 3 min
Lupo the Butcher is one of the most well known of all IRL’s films, and has a worldwide reputation as an original film in the “Sick and Twisted” animated film genre. The film warmed up audiences for Guns and Roses rock concerts and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1989) and circulated numerous world festivals.
Chirpy
John Goras | UK | 2001 | 12 min
Statement on modern pornography. Jolly and adorable little yellow bird Chirpy eats some psychedelic smiling mushrooms. Chirpy walks through the woods while tripping out of his tiny skull. He encounters a huge horse and the two animals “get freaky,” so to speak. Animator of this film, Bill Plympton, has described the film as “one of the
sickest animated films ever made.”
Little Rural Riding Hood
Tex Avery | USA | 1949 | 6 min
The last of Tex Avery’s variations on Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), in which the country wolf visits his city cousin, who tries to teach him the rudiments of civilised behaviour when watching girls in nightclubs – without, it has to be said, a great deal of success... (source Michael Brooke)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Robert Clampett | USA | 1946 | 8 min
While reading his favourite comic book, Daffy accidentally knocks himself unconscious and dreams he‘s Duck Twacy, famous detective, trying to solve the case of the missing piggy banks. Taking a streetcar (conducted by Porky Pig, in a non-speaking cameo role) to the gangsters’ hideout, he meets up with such grotesque criminals as Pickle Puss, Eighty-Eight Teeth and Neon Noodle. (written by Paul Penna)
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
Robert Clampett | USA | 1943 | 7 min
Spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with an all-black cartoon cast. Many WWII references, including rationing (the evil Queen is a hoarder of sugar and rubber tires) and Jeep vehicles (the Sebben Dwarfs come to the rescue in three of them). Also spoofs the extreme close-up of Kane‘s lips uttering “Rosebud” in Citizen Kane (1941) . (written by Paul Penna)
“Teat Beat of Sex” episodes 1-3
Signe Baumane | USA, Italy | 2008 | 12 min
Teat Beat of Sex are three short lectures on sex given by a knowing woman. Very entertaining. Very informative. Kirby addresses the question on whether size matters or not. Juice is about a normal contradiction of man's dreamworld and woman's reality. Sex is the only solution. Trouble informs us on what happens deep inside a woman if she hasn't had sex for few weeks, and consequences of it.
The Flying House
Winsor McCay, Bill Plympton | USA | 2011 | 9 min
I discovered The Flying House a few years ago while watching a collection of McCay’s works on an old videocassette tape. I was amazed by the humor, great storytelling, and of course, the superior draftsmanship. So, I took it upon myself to restore and update the film for a new generation. Bill Plympton.
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Winsor McCay | USA | 1918 | 12 min
An animated depiction of the sinking of the Lusitania: In May 1915, the liner leaves the United States, headed for Liverpool with over 2000 passengers on board. As the ship nears its destination, she is struck and severely damaged by a torpedo from a German U-boat. Even as frantic efforts to evacuate the ship are underway, another torpedo
strikes the ship, leading quickly to disaster.