Frank Zappa presents: The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)
Жанр : мультфильм, музыка
Время выполнения : 52М
Директор : Frank Zappa, Bruce Bickford
Краткое содержание
Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.
Don van Vliet, alias "Captain Beefheart", is one of the most influential, misunderstood, talked about, admired, copied, treasured, loved and quoted musicians and yet he is still an obscure and mysterious artist. His quite abrupt artistic transformation from working with a microphone to a paintbrush in 1982 and his consequent move from the desert to the ocean meant even less direct contact with the outside world than before. Subsequently there is very little information about Don from this time onwards and this short black-and-white film made in 1993 is an unique opportunity to see and hear this unique man
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A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
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Ученый-идеалист создает роботов для облегчения труда рабочих, а в результате гибнет, растоптанный своими созданиями, которых «перепрограммировали» в карателей забастовщиков...
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