Bruce Bickford

1947 - 2019

Bruce Bickford (February 11, 1947 - April 28, 2019) was a maker of animated films who works primarily in clay animation. From 1974 to 1980 he collaborated with Frank Zappa. Bickford's animation was featured extensively in the Frank Zappa videos Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special. Zappa also released a video titled The Amazing Mr. Bickford, which was entirely composed of Bickford animations set to a soundtrack of Zappa's orchestral music.Bickford's animations depict surreal scenes based on his unique worldview. Often outwardly seeming to be somewhat disconnected from the world around him, Bruce Bickford's work is extremely subjective in its content and concepts, making for some disturbing and shocking imagery. Much of his video work depicted fast-moving, fluid-like transformations of human figures and disfigured faces into odd beasts on surreal structural settings with impressive camera effects (moving around within his stop-motion animation).His life and work were featured in the 2004 biographical documentary film Monster Road, directed by Brett Ingram, which has won numerous film festival awards and garnered acclaim in many countries.He is currently working on Boar's Head/Whore's Bed (line animation, 4500+ frames and counting), Tales of the Green River and Castle 2001, a feature-length film which is animated using 3D shapes made out of bits of paper.A new DVD was released by Bright Eye Pictures in early 2008, titled Prometheus' Garden. It includes the first film that Bickford had complete control over, the 28-minute Prometheus' Garden, originally completed on 16mm film in 1988. The DVD also includes Luck of a Foghorn, a new 30-minute documentary about Bickford by the director of Monster Road. Mr. Bickford was the first ever guest to appear on the internet radio show Pussyfoot.

Фильмы

Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes

Bruce Bickford, Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.

Baby Snakes

8.0 ⚠️ 1979

США, музыка

Monster Road

Brett Ingram

Bruce Bickford, George Bickford

Explores the wildly fantastic world of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Traces the origins of his remarkably unique sensibility, journeying back to Bickford's childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War. Finally, the film examines Bickford's relationship with his father, George, who is grappling with the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

Monster Road

7.7 ⚠️ 2004

США, мультфильм

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

Bruce Bickford

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

7.7 ⚠️ 2008

США, мультфильм

Prometheus' Garden

Bruce Bickford

Emily Bishton, John Hanford

Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe unlike any other. The dark and magical images of this haunting film unfold in a dreamlike stream of consciousness revealing an unlikely cast of characters engaged in a violent struggle for survival.

Prometheus' Garden

7.6 ⚠️ 1988

США, мультфильм

Frank Zappa presents: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

Bruce Bickford, Frank Zappa

Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

Frank Zappa presents: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

7.4 ⚠️ 1987

США, мультфильм

Cas'l

Bruce Bickford

CAS'L' is a 45-minute stop-motion clay animated film by Bruce Bickford.

Cas'l

2011

мультфильм

Luck Of A Foghorn

Brett Ingram

Bruce Bickford

Luck of a Foghorn is a documentary featurette about the late Seattle underground animator Bruce Bickford (1947 - 2019), former collaborator of musician Frank Zappa and creator of Prometheus’ Garden, one of the most original stop-motion films in animation history. Interweaving Bickford’s pulsing, violent, magical, and mesmerizing clay animation with atmospheric 16mm and Super 8mm cinematography, home movies, and sparse interviews, Luck of a Foghorn takes viewers behind the scenes and deep into the garden of Prometheus.

Luck of a Foghorn

2021

мультфильм