Bill Plympton Movies

A narrator tells us the story of a ceiling fan, ensconced in the spare room of a house occupied by an old woman. The fan is lonely, and its life...

A day in the life of the world's unluckiest guy. Starting the morning off with a shaving nick from hell, he endures fires, mad dogs, rampaging vacuum...

Western shootout

A woman's shoes say a lot about her.

An animated look at the 11 essential steps to make the pilgrim's progess from finding a woman to making love to her. Along the way, our prototypical...

A southern preacher sings an ode to Jesus and auto racing, with a religious choir backing him up.

While giving an art lesson, the Magic Line is distracted by thoughts of his true love and former model, Vera, with whom he'd had a wild and...

A haunting tango song inspires a dancing couple to try steps and moves that Fred and Ginger never imagined.

Nigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people trying to make a movie. But everything is going wrong. The...

'No Snow for Christmas' is an animated Christmas carol about the effects of climate change.

In eight minutes, animator Bill Plympton gives us 24 vignettes: seven are clearly about sex, 10 about violence, and seven others deal with human...

Three athletes race to win the heart of a woman.

It's the little things that really hurt.

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A woman gives birth.

A man plucks a hair from his nostril. The hair wants back in.

A sleazy lawyer, who owns an apartment building, torments the inhabitants so they'll move out allowing him to build a toxic waste dump in its place.

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she...

Interviews with Bill Plympton and others in the field of animation follow his development as an independent animator.

An Elvis-like dog sings an ode to his hairstyle.