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Push Comes to Shove

Plympton's Twisted Toons • 6m 6s

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).

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