Animation
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Review of “I Married a Strange Person!”; A Feast of Violence, Humor, and Surrealism by Bill Plympton
If your concept of animation is limited to the colorful, gentle, and moralistic worlds of Disney or Pixar, watching I…
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The Illusionist, A Magic Fading in the Dust of Time
When The Illusionist ends, a strange silence remains. It is not sadness exactly, nor joy, but something between the two…
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Life as a Zucchini: A Simple yet Profound Animation about Loneliness, Hope, and the Essence of Being Human
Children Who Painted Their Pain with Crayons: The Bittersweet Tenderness of Life as a Zucchini Life as a Zucchini is…
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Mutant Aliens
When Desire, Power, and Imagination Become the Same Thing If Cheatin’ explored love and jealousy as a feverish, sensual dream,…
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Cheatin’
Love, Obsession, and Madness Rendered in Boiling Color and Sharp Wit An essay on Bill Plympton’s hand-drawn feature: craft, psychology,…
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