IDIOTS and ANGELS: Film Screening w/Special Guest 2 time Oscar nominated animator BILL PLYMPTON September 27, 2011

"Toulouse-Lautrec by way of Charles Bukowski." -The New York Times

"If The Nightmare Before Christmas, Barfly, and Wings of Desire had a menage-a-trois, their surrealist progeny would be this extraordinary film." - Interview Magazine

Described by The New York Times as "ceaselessly imaginative, relentless and brilliant," and hailed simply as "God" by Simpsons creator Matt Groening, two time Academy Award-nominee BILL PLYMPTON screens and answers questions about his latest feature film, IDIOTS AND ANGELS, and reads and signs his new autobiography, INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATED. Plus a special onstage conversation hosted by cartoonist & Plympton fan Patrick McDonnell, the creator of MUTTS.

Hand-drawn in pencil entirely by Plympton himself, the gorgeously creepy Idiots and Angels is a grim, mostly monochromatic, fairy-tale comedy about a boozy, brutish businessman who suddenly sprouts angel wings. A departure from Plympton's earlier, talkier work, which, along with the Oscar-nominated shorts "Your Face" and "Guard Dog," includes the video for Kanye West's "Heard 'Em Say," Plympton's sixth and best animated feature contains not a word of dialogue; the only human sounds are bestial grunts and chortles and a growling soundtrack by Tom Waits. If you don't already consider yourself a Plympton groupie, take our word for it, you will after you see this earthy (yet elegant) epic. Just don't bring the kids.

INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATED on sale at the event! With a hilarious forward by filmmaker Terry Gilliam, Independently Animated chronicles Plympton's life and career within the cartoon and animation industry and features over a hundred pages of beautiful and rare art.

Presented by The Raconteur/Alex Dawson and The State Theatre

Visit http://www.statetheatrenj.org/idiots_and_angels for tickets.