Bruce Bickford
A Night in the Cas'l'
*"You and I know animation is the most important thing in the world."*
Bruce Bickford is a legendary self-thought animator, a man who has never stopped playing with toy soldiers and believing in his imaginary world. He has been making films at home for almost 40 years, always breathtaking, technically inventive and taking us deep into a strange universe.
Frank Zappa, with whom he worked in the 70’s, called him the “Amazing Mr. Bickford”, rightfully so! He works with a meticulousness and patience that defy an ants’ work, animating frame by frame dozens of minute figurines, making them, and the backgrounds, live with continuous morphing of one thing into another. The dimensions blend in the same way, everything is organic, things change wherever your eyes can watch. The stream of information that gets to the spectator is like dreaming in fast forward, or maybe like living a Svankmajer film on LSD! Have your eyes ready and wide open, Bruce Bickford will be with us for one night, after which he will give a workshop in RITS and leave for a mini-tour of Northern Europe.
*"You and I know animation is the most important thing in the world."*
Bruce Bickford is a legendary self-thought animator, a man who has never stopped playing with toy soldiers and believing in his imaginary world. He has been making films at home for almost 40 years, always breathtaking, technically inventive and taking us deep into a strange universe.
Frank Zappa, with whom he worked in the 70’s, called him the “Amazing Mr. Bickford”, rightfully so! He works with a meticulousness and patience that defy an ants’ work, animating frame by frame dozens of minute figurines, making them, and the backgrounds, live with continuous morphing of one thing into another. The dimensions blend in the same way, everything is organic, things change wherever your eyes can watch. The stream of information that gets to the spectator is like dreaming in fast forward, or maybe like living a Svankmajer film on LSD! Have your eyes ready and wide open, Bruce Bickford will be with us for one night, after which he will give a workshop in RITS and leave for a mini-tour of Northern Europe.
