BILL PLYMPTON IN THE BUFF
Legendary animator and peverse artist Bill Plympton has been a good friend of the B oston Underground Film Festival for almost all of its history. One year, he was a judge, and we showed his latest film EATING as a work in progress. It went on to win an award at Cannes. Last year we spremiered GUARD DOG, which went on to get an Academy Award nomination this year. (Note: in spite of its "underground" status, BUFF has premiered a film that went on to get a nomination every year - COPY SHOP, Don Herzfeld's REJECTED, Wendy Tilby WHEN THE DAY BREAKS, etc)
I met Bill more than 10 years ago through John MacNeil, of Boston Camera and Moody Street Pictures. Through me, Bill has also partipated in the Woods Hole and Northampton festivals.
Bill has also recruited films for us. In last year;s festival, we showed SON OF SATAN, based on a piece by Charles Bukowski, which went on the get the Best of Fest award. He also got us our popular DELIVERANCE; THE MUSICAL. His associate, Signe Baumann, who did the animation for Mitchell Robbins' XXXY, and also does the Filthy Fest in New York, did the same for BUFF last year.
This year we're showing the Boston premiere of Bill';s HAIR HIGH, a spoof on teen-age styles and manners of the early 60's. It's very good. Although it has foreign distributiion, it still does not have domestic. Even more unfortunate, the film cost so much that Bill had to give up his studio on 23rd St. in Chelsea and move operations into his loft.
For a man of so much talent, so much vision, and so much generosity, he shouldn't be struggling this hard. I was reminded of this when I just watched another film he sent us, this year's Oscar nominee, RYAN, a Canadian film about a homeless Canadian animator. It's powerful stuff.
Thanks, Bill
I met Bill more than 10 years ago through John MacNeil, of Boston Camera and Moody Street Pictures. Through me, Bill has also partipated in the Woods Hole and Northampton festivals.
Bill has also recruited films for us. In last year;s festival, we showed SON OF SATAN, based on a piece by Charles Bukowski, which went on the get the Best of Fest award. He also got us our popular DELIVERANCE; THE MUSICAL. His associate, Signe Baumann, who did the animation for Mitchell Robbins' XXXY, and also does the Filthy Fest in New York, did the same for BUFF last year.
This year we're showing the Boston premiere of Bill';s HAIR HIGH, a spoof on teen-age styles and manners of the early 60's. It's very good. Although it has foreign distributiion, it still does not have domestic. Even more unfortunate, the film cost so much that Bill had to give up his studio on 23rd St. in Chelsea and move operations into his loft.
For a man of so much talent, so much vision, and so much generosity, he shouldn't be struggling this hard. I was reminded of this when I just watched another film he sent us, this year's Oscar nominee, RYAN, a Canadian film about a homeless Canadian animator. It's powerful stuff.
Thanks, Bill
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