The Amazing Mr. Bickford

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The Amazing Mr. Bickford
The Amazing Mr. Bickford is a video released by Frank Zappa in 1987, containing orchestral pieces by Zappa set to the clay animation of Bruce Bickford.

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.
Oct 27, 2008 5:52 AM
Re: The Amazing Mr. Bickford
I wonder if he is the same artist whose work was showcased in the Zappa Movie Baby Snakes?
By: Funkbox
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Re: The Amazing Mr. Bickford
Indeed, it was Bruce Bickford:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snakes
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