Bill Plympton Movies

As a brave couple demonstrates, the narrator uses quotes, examples and advice to help us all reach the highest heights in the art of kissing.

Plympton's animated self-portrait.

A man sings an ode to a lost love, his nose.

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.

An epic music film comprised of 6 songs by blues rock musician Jackie Greene, animated by Bill Plympton. The music film follows Mr. Greene on tour in...

Virtuoso animated satire on the Olympic Games as a media spectacle. In the form of a news broadcast, the strangest sports, rituals and participants...

An adaptation of Walt Curtis's poem, "The Time The Drunk Came To Town And Got Drunker Than A Skunk, or So He Thought.", about a Cowboy town that...

Waiting for her sailor to return home, a woman on a cliff watches closely as a ship approaches.

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Three athletes race to win the heart of a woman.

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A boy tries to lick the frosting.

The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.

A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A how-to guide.

An early short about particular transactions on a park bench.

The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the moment he ultimately meets his fate as a meal for a...

"Demi's Panic" follows the story of Demi, a young Latina professional living in NYC, whose prophetic dreams become all too real when an invisible...

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. The title is as the animation does.