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artistic achievement award
Bill Plympton
ard
w Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize & Canal Award Winner –
Two-time Academy Award
®
Nominee
Selected Filmography:
Animator, director, producer and writer Bill Plympton grew up in Portland and
The Fan and the Flower
credits Oregon’s rainy climate for nurturing his drawing skills and
(2007 AIFF)
imagination. His illustrations have graced the pages of The New York Times,
Guard Dog (2009 AIFF)
e
ment a
Vogue and Vanity Fair. Plympton, a political cartoon strip, was syndicated in
Guide Dog (2009 AIFF)
over twenty papers by Universal Press Syndicate.
Guns on the Clackamas
All his life, Bill Plympton has been fascinated by animation. In 1988 his film
Hair High
hiev
career received a boost with a Best Animated Short Oscar nomination for Your
Face (p69). He did commercial work for such clients as AT&T and Mercedes-Benz
Hot Dog (2009 AIFF)
and he animated an MTV video for Kanye West. After more highly successful
I Married A Strange Person!
short films, Plympton made a feature film and his Mutant Aliens premiered at the
Idiots and Angels (2009 AIFF)
Sundance Film Festival in 2001. Several of his shorts and his newest animated
J. Lyle
feature film, Idiots and Angels (p44), will be featured at this year’s AIFF.
Mutant Aliens
Bill Plympton will be honored with the ashland
Shuteye Hotel (2008 AIFF)
independent film festival Artistic Achievement Award at
artistic ac the Awards Celebration Sunday, April 5 (p9).
The Tune
Your Face (2009 AIFF)
“I have three iron rules that must be followed—call them
Plympton’s Dogma: Rule #1 – make the film short! Rule #2 –
Walt Curtis: The
make the film cheap! Rule #3 – make it funny! I don’t do grants,
Peckerneck Poet
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or sponsorship, or corporate tie-ins—no producers telling me a
film is going to offend a certain audience demographic.”
Animation Live:
An Evening with
Bill Plympton
90 minutes
Saturday 6p at the Historic Ashland Armory
Horn Dog
This master of the art form will give an animation
demonstration while sharing a retrospective of his
storied career. He will share some of his classic
shorts, MTV videos, clips from feature films, his just
completed short Horn Dog, and other animated
surprises. Plympton will create an individual
animation drawing for each person attending this
Mexican Standoff event.
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