Your Face

Overview:

A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Director:

Bill Plympton

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$2,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

surrealism
love
singer
serenade
face
crooner
tenor
piano
hand drawn animation
hand drawn
short film
ballad
music
animated

Cast

Maureen McElheron

~ as ~

(voice)

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 week(s) ago
7
This is as much an animation to listen to as watch as this gent finds his face stretched, spun, shrunk, shredded and generally manipulated. He serenades us with a song about his visage - one that looks like it might be suffering from a bit of gout, and about that of his beloved with some fun rhymes to accompany these colourful contortions. From what I could tell, there’s not really any story as such here, it’s more a collection of enjoyably zany and abstract cartoons from an imaginative Bill Plympton loosely connected by a neck and an only occasionally connected torso. Visually, it’s a bit like one of those kaleidoscope toys you had as a kid where shapes change randomly but still with some symmetry and order to them. It’s an enjoyable few minutes of skilful drawing.