The Amazing Mr. Bickford (Video 1987)Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford. Director:Frank ZappaWriter:Frank Zappa |
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Title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford (Video 1987)
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We enter Bruce Bickford's studio in Santa Monica, California; it's 1978. Various technicians are at work; drawers upon drawers are full of figurines. Bickford says a few things, and then, with Zappa's symphonic music on the soundtrack, we're taken into various Bickford creations. Knife-wielding Africans fight rifle-toting Whites. A drawing of a toilet fills the screen, various foods emerge from it, and they change shapes swiftly into images of animals and things. In claymation, three everymen move through landscapes of danger and conflict. Moments of the every day change quickly into grotesque images. Little holds its shape for more than a moment. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Written by Frank Zappa
Performed by The Ensemble InterContemporain
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This movie shows the first use of the "bullet time" effect in clay animation (a technique of several cameras taking pictures in the same time around somebody). Michel Gondry took this technique and adapted it to use it in live action pictures, commercials and video clips. This "bullet time" is also used in The Matrix. See more »Soundtracks
"Naval Aviation In Art?"Written by Frank Zappa
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This clay animation is violent, sexually explicit and disturbing. No wonder Frank Zappa found it interesting. Some of this animation has been seen before in Zappa's "Baby Snakes" and "Dub Room Special". The rest is previously unreleased. Zappa's music provides an eerie accompaniment to Bickford's images. This tape is currently out of print, let's hope that Gail re-releases it on DVD when the videos start coming out again. At just shy of an hour, any more would be overwhelming.