Your Face
1987 | 3m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Bill Plympton |
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| Writer: | Bill Plympton |
| Staring: |
| A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015. | |
| Release Date: | May 01, 1987 |
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| Director: | Bill Plympton |
| Writer: | Bill Plympton |
| Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Music |
| Keywords | love, surrealism, singer, serenade, face, tenor, piano, hand drawn animation, hand drawn, short film, ballad, music |
| Production Companies | Plymptoons, Bill Plympton Studios |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $2,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 31, 2026 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Maureen McElheron | (voice) |
| Name | Job |
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| Bill Plympton | Writer, Director |
| Maureen McElheron | Original Music Composer |
| Stephen Barr | Editor |
| Name | Title |
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| Bill Plympton | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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This is as much an animation to listen to as watch as this gent finds his face stretched, spun, shrunk, shredded and generally manipulated. He serenades us with a song about his visage - one that looks like it might be suffering from a bit of gout, and about that of his beloved with some fun rhymes ... to accompany these colourful contortions. From what I could tell, there’s not really any story as such here, it’s more a collection of enjoyably zany and abstract cartoons from an imaginative Bill Plympton loosely connected by a neck and an only occasionally connected torso. Visually, it’s a bit like one of those kaleidoscope toys you had as a kid where shapes change randomly but still with some symmetry and order to them. It’s an enjoyable few minutes of skilful drawing.