The new gem from the King of hand-drawn Indie Animation, Bill Plympton.
In the 1940s, a mythical cowboy appears in Sourdough Creek, a corrupt logging town few miles north of nowhere. With only his guitar and Hellbug, a giant fearsome super-insect he battles the evil mayor and his equally egotistical twin to purge the logging operation of their evil clutches.
Veteran independent animator Bill Plympton’s genre-bending new feature Slide is a blend of Western, musical and fantasy. Ecology, politics and humour intertwine in an eccentric tale that is constantly inventive and has an appealing lightness of touch.
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Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon in 1946. In 1968, he moved to New York and studied at the School of Visual Arts, while working as a cartoonist and illustrator for The New York Times, Vogue, The Village Voice and Rolling Stones. In the 1980s, Bill Plympton made his first animated shorts and his first feature film, The Tune. In 1998, his second feature, I Married a Strange Person! won the Grand Prix at Annecy Film Festival. Mutant Aliens won the Grand Prix at Annecy for the second time. His eighth film, Slide, was presented this year in the Contrechamp competition at the Annecy Film Festival.
