- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 11, 1947
- Place of Birth
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Died
- April 28, 2019
Bruce Bickford
Bruce Bickford (February 11, 1947 - April 28, 2019) was a maker of animated films who works primarily in clay animation. From 1974 to 1980 he collaborated with Frank Zappa. Bickford's animation was featured extensively in the Frank Zappa videos Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special. Zappa also released a video titled The Amazing Mr. Bickford, which was entirely composed of Bickford animations set to a soundtrack of Zappa's orchestral music.Bickford's animations depict surreal scenes based on his unique worldview. Often outwardly seeming to be somewhat disconnected from the world around him, Bruce Bickford's work is extremely subjective in its content and concepts, making for some disturbing and shocking imagery. Much of his video work depicted fast-moving, fluid-like transformations of human figures and disfigured faces into odd beasts on surreal structural settings with impressive camera eff…
Filmography
movieAnimation Mixtape
2025 · Director
Selected Line Drawings
movieSelected Line Drawings
2025 · Director, Animation, Producer
movieFrank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep
2025 · Self
movieZappa
2020 · Self - Animator
movieAtilla
2017 · Voice, Director
Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
movieStupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Pachuco Cross
moviePachuco Cross
2015 · Director
movieFrank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme
2013 · Animation
movieCas'l'
2011 · Director
movieThe Comic that Frenches your Mind
2008 · Narrator, Editor, Animation, Director
movieLuck of a Foghorn
2008
Bruce Bickford Workshop
movieBruce Bickford Workshop
2007 · Director
movieMonster Road
2004 · Himself
moviePrometheus' Garden
1988 · Writer, Director, Animation
movieVideo from Hell
1987 · Animation, Title Illustration
movieThe Amazing Mr. Bickford
1987 · Self, Animation
movieFrank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
1982 · Animation
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
movieFrank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
1980 · Animation
movieFrank Zappa: Baby Snakes
1979 · Self
Travels with Bruce
movieTravels with Bruce
— · Self, Director
Feats of Clay
movieFeats of Clay
— · Director
Beatnik Poet
movieBeatnik Poet
— · Director