Movies: Bill Plympton

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest. The ...

A man sings an ode to a lost love, his nose....

"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt Disney....

Come with Bill to Flooby Nooby land!!...

This acclaimed animation short depicts the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt at age 8 from a concentration camp, in a cross-generational collaboration between Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton & 10-yr-old 1st-time animator Perry Chen....

A short musical about love....

Directed by animator and filmmaker Bill Plympton, this 1997 documentary provides a glimpse into the life of poet Walt Curtis, on whose memoir MALA NOCHE is based....

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The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy....

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Funny gags on every floor of the hotel....

The best wacky, surreal pieces made for the Fox TV show "The Edge."...

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Interviews with Bill Plympton and others in the field of animation follow his development as an independent animator....

A man about to go swimming imagines what horrors could be lurking deep in in the waters of his backyard pool....

The pseudo-spiritual ramblings of a self-proclaimed ‘wiseman’ are interspersed by bizarre things happening to his head....

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A boy tries to lick the frosting....

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Western shootout...