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Bruce Bickford‌

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Bruce Bickford

Seattle, Washington, USA

Bruce Bickford

Seattle, Washington, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1947-02-11

Popularity

star1.5

Biography

Bruce Bickford (February 11, 1947 - April 28, 2019) was a maker of animated films who works primarily in clay animation. From 1974 to 1980 he collaborated with Frank Zappa. Bickford's animation was featured extensively in the Frank Zappa videos Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special. Zappa also released a video titled The Amazing Mr. Bickford, which was entirely composed of Bickford animations set to a soundtrack of Zappa's orchestral music.Bickford's animations depict surreal scenes based on his unique worldview. Often outwardly seeming to be somewhat disconnected from the world around him, Bruce Bickford's work is extremely subjective in its content and concepts, making for some disturbing and shocking imagery. Much of his video work depicted fast-moving, fluid-like transformations of human figures and disfigured faces into odd beasts on surreal structural settings with impressive camera effects (moving around within his stop-motion animation).His life and work were featured in the 2004 biographical documentary film Monster Road, directed by Brett Ingram, which has won numerous film festival awards and garnered acclaim in many countries.He is currently working on Boar's Head/Whore's Bed (line animation, 4500+ frames and counting), Tales of the Green River and Castle 2001, a feature-length film which is animated using 3D shapes made out of bits of paper.A new DVD was released by Bright Eye Pictures in early 2008, titled Prometheus' Garden. It includes the first film that Bickford had complete control over, the 28-minute Prometheus' Garden, originally completed on 16mm film in 1988. The DVD also includes Luck of a Foghorn, a new 30-minute documentary about Bickford by the director of Monster Road. Mr. Bickford was the first ever guest to appear on the internet radio show Pussyfoot.

Movie Credits

Baby Snakes

Baby Snakes‌
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calendar 1979

Zappa

Zappa‌
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calendar 2020

The Amazing Mr. Bickford

The Amazing Mr. Bickford‌
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calendar 1987

Monster Road

Monster Road‌
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calendar 2004

Luck of a Foghorn

Luck of a Foghorn‌
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calendar 2008

Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne

Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne‌
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calendar 2016

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

The Comic that Frenches your Mind‌
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calendar 2008

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