SLIDE
With Legendary Animator Bill Plympton in-person!
Sunday, February 18th at 2:15
PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
With post-film reception where Bill Plympton will draw impromptu cartoons for every audience
member! Live piano and vocals by
Lydia Sabosto
What if Clint Eastwood and Mel Brooks became cartoonists to create the
wackiest, most surreal musical western ever? The result might be legendary
animator Bill Plympton’s mythical cowboy showdown with eco-villains
intent on paving over idyllic Sourdough Creek. Plympton’s wit and surreal
animation takes on the fight for the wild west’s fading glory, peppered with
swinging western tunes. This is the animator’s ninth hand-drawn feature. Along
with many shorts, MTV ID’s, and Simpsons’ couch gags, this has earned Plympton
status as the “King of Indie Animation.” (2024, 80 min)
A
fter
an 8 year hiatus from feature film making, Bill Plympton, the “King of
Indie Animation, returns to LI’s Cinema Arts Centre, which he has
chosen to hold the New York and East Coast Premiere of his ninth and
newest award-winning feature animated film, SLIDE (co-produced by Guillermo
del Toro, among others.) Nominated two-times for Academy Awards, Bill
Plympton is also a winner of the Cannes Grand Prix du Jury among
other honors, and is the first person to hand draw an entire animated feature
film. Just this past December SLIDE won the Los Angeles Animation
Festival’s Best Feature Film and Best Feature Director.
Event produced and curated by Jud Newborn. Maureen McElheron, the composer for Bill’s
films, will be present to perform a song from “Slide.”
Thank you to our Sponsors:
Lydia Sabosto - Piano & Vocals
Adrian Sinnott, The Berndt Toast Gang
- Long Island Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society - http://www.adriansinnott.com/btg/
Menachem Luchins, Escape Pod Comics - http://escapepodcomics.com/
Jim Teeple, The LI Country Music Association - https://licma.org/