Taking a turn from his shock value animation from the Spike and Mike shorts, Bill Plympton draws an adult-only story about love, jealousy and, as the title implies, adultery. Jake and Ella’s marital bliss is hijacked, but only until Ella procures the use of a “Trans-Soul Machine” to inhabit Jake’s fleeting female interests.
Funded partially by fans from Kickstarter and almost completely hand-drawn, Plympton’s surreal yet earth-bound fairy tale underscores his wild visual imagination.
"Like every other great animator, from Chuck Jones to Hayao Miyazaki, Mr. Plympton rewrites the laws of physics at will, but within a rigorous and coherent logic. He conjures a world of absolute improbability that, somehow, makes perfect sense." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Director Biography
Mr. Plympton is considered the King of Indie Animation and is the only person to hand draw an entire animated feature film.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he graduated from Portland State University in Graphic Design. Bill Plympton moved to New York City in 1968. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as New York Times, National Lampoon, Playboy and Screw.
In 1987 he was nominated for an Oscar® for his animated short Your Face. In 2005, Bill received another Oscar® nomination, this time for a short film Guard Dog. Push Comes to Shove another short film, won the prestigious Cannes 1991 Palme d'Or.
After producing many shorts that appeared on MTV and Spike and Mike's, he turned his talent to feature films. Since 1991 he's made 9 feature films, 6 of them, The Tune, Mondo Plympton, I Married A Strange Person, Mutant Aliens, Hair High and Idiots and Angels are all animated features.