At Home with Bill Plympton
Plympton's Twisted Toons
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11m
Directed by Metrograph | 12 mins | 2025
Animator Bill Plympton discusses his life and work as part of our series Plympton's Twisted Toons.
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I Married a Strange Person!
Directed by Bill Plympton | 72 mins | 1997
Newlywed Kerry becomes suspicious of her husband, Grant, when he starts manifesting signs of what seem to be superpowers in Plympton’s surreal film of shape-shifters, unusual sexual couplings, and covetous conglomerates.“Probably the socket and most t...
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Cheatin'
Directed by Bill Plympton | 77 mins | 2013
A lurid film noir opera that eschews intelligible dialogue, "Cheatin’" follows a couple, Jake and Ella, from the first blush of attraction at a carnival meet-cute to the cusp of marital disintegration.“My second non-dialogue film and I believe it's my...
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Push Comes to Shove
Directed by Bill Plympton | 6 mins | 1991
With its pair of mute, suited protagonists trading increasingly elaborate blows, Bill Plympton’s Cannes Jury Prize-awarded short evokes the surrealist bodily harm of Jan Svankmajer’s "The Dimensions of Dialogue" (1982).