Idiots and Angels
In Bill Plympton’s newest animated feature film, a morally ambiguous man spends his days at a dead-end job and his nights in an unfriendly dive bar. And then, one morning, a pair of wings begins to sprout from his shoulders. Filled with Plympton’s trademark weirdness and visual fluidity, Idiots and Angels is a surreal masterpiece.
Director Bill Plympton scheduled to attend both screenings
Sponsor:
ShadowCatcher Entertainment
Cast & Crew
Director: Bill Plympton
Producer: Biljana Labovic
Editor: Kevin Palmer
Screenwriter: Bill Plympton
Cinematographer: Biljana Labovic, Lisa Labracio
Music: Nicole Renaud, Corey A. Jackson, Tom Waits, Pink Martini
Filmography: Hair High (2004); Mutant Aliens (2001); I Married a Strange Person! (1997); Mondo Plympton (1997); The Tune (1992)
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A Freudian's Dream, Jun 02, 2008
By William Adams
“Idiots and Angels is writer-director Bill Plimpton’s latest surreal comedy. Plimpton introduced the film himself, explaining that no cameras were used. He scanned his 25,000 drawings into a computer database and assembled the film. Quite a technical feat!
The wordless story is of a lout who”
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No need for the laws of physics, Jun 09, 2008
By Becky Hellyer
“From the first scene of an alarm ringing phallically under the bedcovers (you'd have to see it), this movie caught my heart - and my funny bone. The Radical Boyfriend wasn't available so my girlfriend and I took our Budding Artist Teenage Daughters and what an education for them! I don't pretend to”
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