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Your Face

  • 1987
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7.0/10
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Your Face (1987)
Hand-Drawn AnimationAnimationComedyMusicShort

A man's head transforms and contorts bizarrely as he sings "Your Face," an original song.A man's head transforms and contorts bizarrely as he sings "Your Face," an original song.A man's head transforms and contorts bizarrely as he sings "Your Face," an original song.

  • Director
    • Bill Plympton
  • Writers
    • Maureen McElheron
    • Bill Plympton
  • Star
    • Maureen McElheron
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    1.5K
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    • Director
      • Bill Plympton
    • Writers
      • Maureen McElheron
      • Bill Plympton
    • Star
      • Maureen McElheron
    • 12User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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      10llltdesq

      A remarkable piece of animation by Bill Plympton

      This short, nominated for an Academy Award, is visually exceptional and conceptually wonderful. From what I've seen of his work, it's also one of the most conventionally "normal" pieces he's done! It's a kick to watch. Plympton is an acquired taste and I seem to have done so. If you like good animation that messes with the boundaries and sometimes colors outside the lines, try Plympton. By all means, catch this one! Most recommended.
      9planktonrules

      Pure Plympton--though lacking some of the violence we've all come to love!

      While this isn't one of Bill Plympton's best cartoons (it's way too "normal" compared to many of his shorts), it is amazing to watch--especially when you notice that this is all done with what appear to be colored pencils--a rather labor-intensive process. I really liked his insurance ads from a decade ago more--they were very violent yet charming--but still, this is pretty good stuff. Plus, after seeing the PLYMPTOONS DVD, I realize that it's the first film he made that is the classic Plympton style.

      The concept is simple: a guy's face and upper body are all you see and rather annoying operatic-style music plays as his face begins to do mega-strange things. His lips pop off and move about, his face repeatedly turns inside out, etc. Also, oddly enough, I thought the guy looked a lot like President Lyndon Johnson.

      Very captivating and deceptively simple. You just can't stop watching the weirdness once it begins despite there really being no plot.
      9Hitchcoc

      Must Have Taken an Incredible Effort

      This is really simple to describe. We have a central figure whose face changes over a hundred times. The faces are creative as well as photographic. The have been done with drawings and then integrated. Quite remarkable. Apparently the song we here has some significance.
      9rzajac

      The power of a simple idea, elegantly implemented

      The beauty of "Your Face" is in the way Plympton got a very simple idea--How many ways can you morph a face?--and then elegantly and effectively hand-illustrated the frames to bring that creative idea to rampaging life on the screen.

      It took the short animation scene (via the old Tournee) by storm; an immediate fave of one and all!

      One of the wonders of it, as the piece proceeds, is seeing Plympton's knack for imagining and capturing the "dynamics"--a surprisingly close approximation of the behaviors of the physical system he's "modeling".

      And it all couldn't have happened to a nicer guy: Met Plympton in Angouleme in 2000, and he was a pleasure to chat with about his latest (at the time) project.
      10Into_The_West

      The First True Plymptoon

      As odd as this may sound, I first saw "Your Face" on the Lifetime Channel as I was laying in a hospital room, recovering from major surgery. "Your Face" seemed to fit then and it seems to fit now and always.

      Although Plympton had made several cartoons prior to "Your Face," this is the fist time we see the style his work is noted for: impossibly grotesque body deformations done for laughs, and funny, too. We watch and see everything that could possibly happen to the singer's head, including abstract reduction. All through the strange looking singer seems blissfully unaware of what's being done to him as he sings a song that is a perfect parody of the ballad and touching, as well.

      As with later films, Plympton does little if anything to signal us if we should laugh, be horrified, or just creeped out. This sense of subtlety is what makes his films so enjoyable to me.

      Although only three minutes long, this is a perfectly complete, self-contained masterpiece of animation.

      Bill Plympton rules!

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      • Trivia
        The odd-sounding voice the man is singing in is actually that of Maureen McElheron. After the song was recorded, the recording was slowed by one-third, giving the desired (and unusual) effect.
      • Connections
        Edited into Mondo Plympton (1997)

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      • Release date
        • November 22, 2000 (France)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Ваше лицо
      • Production company
        • Plymptoons
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      • Budget
        • $2,000 (estimated)
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      • Runtime
        • 3m
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      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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