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Sex & Violence

Bill PLYMPTON

USA1997 8min color

Synopsis

It's extraordinary from the very beginning : a mermaid's marvelous(?) performance in Aqua Land. Successively, mischievous jokes are fired like bullets without giving the viewers any  short break at all. Meanwhile, the metamorphosis of human body is nearly a carnival. Compared with Noodle Nude(a popular Korean lewd animation), < Sex and Violence > is much faster and more candid. Bill Plympton declares that < Sex and Violence > is a feast for snobs whose only interests are sex and violence. If you don't understand the saying "the one who laughs in the end is the real laugher" and the doctors' saying, "carrots are good for eyesight.", ask Bill. 
One more thing to say : If you get the gist of Bill's beliefs presented in the beginning of <I Married a Strange Person>, it will help you decide whether to put him aside for good or not. (HONG Sung-Nam)

Diretor

Bill PLYMPTON

He is maybe the last artist using the old fashioned animation techniques. In the great tradition of Tex Avery and the animation of UPA his works for cinema advertising have a special touch of quality and invention. Around Europe his complete work is been shown with great success.