Bruce Bickford

Bruce Bickford

Bruce Bickford (February 11, 1947 - April 28, 2019) was a maker of animated films who works primarily in clay animation. From 1974 to 1980 he collaborated with Frank Zappa. Bickford's animation was featured extensively in the Frank Zappa videos Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special. Zappa also released a video titled The Amazing Mr. Bickford, which was entirely composed of Bickford animations set to a soundtrack of Zappa's orchestral music.Bickford's animations depict surreal scenes based on his unique worldview. Often outwardly seeming to be somewhat disconnected from the world around him, Bruce Bickford's work is extremely subjective in its content and concepts, making for some disturbing and shocking imagery. Much of his video work depicted fast-moving, fluid-like transformations of human figures and disfigured faces into odd beasts on surreal structural settings with impressive camera effects (moving around within his stop-motion animation).His life and work were featured in the 2004 biographical documentary film Monster Road, directed by Brett Ingram, which has won numerous film festival awards and garnered acclaim in many countries.He is currently working on Boar's Head/Whore's Bed (line animation, 4500+ frames and counting), Tales of the Green River and Castle 2001, a feature-length film which is animated using 3D shapes made out of bits of paper.A new DVD was released by Bright Eye Pictures in early 2008, titled Prometheus' Garden. It includes the first film that Bickford had complete control over, the 28-minute Prometheus' Garden, originally completed on 16mm film in 1988. The DVD also includes Luck of a Foghorn, a new 30-minute documentary about Bickford by the director of Monster Road. Mr. Bickford was the first ever guest to appear on the internet radio show Pussyfoot.

  • Title: Bruce Bickford
  • Popularity: 0.363
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1947-02-11
  • Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
  • Homepage: http://www.brucebickford.com/
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Bruce Bickford Movies

  • 1979
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    Baby Snakes

    Baby Snakes

    6.2 1979 HD

    Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.

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  • 2020
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    Zappa

    Zappa

    7.2 2020 HD

    With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life...

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  • 1987
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    The Amazing Mr. Bickford

    The Amazing Mr. Bickford

    5.7 1987 HD

    Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

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  • 2004
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    Monster Road

    Monster Road

    6.3 2004 HD

    Explores the wildly fantastic world of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Traces the origins of his remarkably unique sensibility,...

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  • 2008
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    Luck of a Foghorn

    Luck of a Foghorn

    1 2008 HD

    Luck of a Foghorn is a documentary featurette about the late Seattle underground animator Bruce Bickford (1947 - 2019), former collaborator of...

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  • 2016
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    Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne

    Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne

    1 2016 HD

    A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays.

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  • 2008
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    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    1 2008 HD

    A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

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  • 1987
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    Prometheus' Garden

    Prometheus' Garden

    5.8 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Prometheus' Garden

    Prometheus' Garden

    5.8 1987 HD

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  • 2013
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    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    6.2 2013 HD

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  • 1987
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    Prometheus' Garden

    Prometheus' Garden

    5.8 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Amazing Mr. Bickford

    The Amazing Mr. Bickford

    5.7 1987 HD

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  • 2017
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    Atilla

    Atilla

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2011
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    Cas'l'

    Cas'l'

    1 2011 HD

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  • 1987
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    Video From Hell

    Video From Hell

    6.5 1987 HD

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  • 1982
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    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    5.9 1982 HD

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  • 1987
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    Video From Hell

    Video From Hell

    6.5 1987 HD

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  • 1980
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    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    1 1980 HD

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  • 2015
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    Pachuco Cross

    Pachuco Cross

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2007
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    Bruce Bickford Workshop

    Bruce Bickford Workshop

    1 2007 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    The Comic that Frenches your Mind

    1 2008 HD

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