Links

This page contains links to other web resources dealing with Bruce Bickford.

• Bright Eye Pictures, "Monster Road"
  Monster Road is a documentary about visionary clay and line animator Bruce Bickford. Combining verite footage, interviews, home movies, childhood drawings, and never-before-seen animation, the film explores Bickford's life and the art, and the points of intersection between the two.
• NPR's Day to Day
  NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Monster Road profiles the artist, his family and the films Bickford makes in the basement of his Seattle-area home. There is also a link to the video trailer of Monster Road available.
• Alex Maness
  Alex Maness did some photography involving Bruce recently, you can find it on his site (some of his work also appears on this site).
• Michel Anderson
  Michel Anderson did the rest of the photography of Bruce you can find on the site. Link goes to his email address.

Here are some reviews of Monster Road!

• Rhonda Baughman 4.5 stars
  This is the day that every Film Threat reviewer dreams of ... a four and a half star film ... bring out the fucking dancing horses, man ... it's time to celebrate!
• Stina Chyn 3.5 stars
  Death to Speedy the Alka-Seltzer Boy, wanting to at least qualify for a heaven that may or may not exist, and obsession with evil and misfortune are among the conversational topics that arise in Brett Ingram's documentary "Monster Road."
• Walter Chaw 2.5 stars
  Monster Road details the life and process of underground claymation hero Bruce Bickford, best known for a pair of collaborations with underground music hero Frank Zappa. Knowing that the work itself is the best entrée into the mind of the artist, director Brett Ingram uses a great deal of invaluable footage from Bickford's archives to lend balance to his subject's obsessive, somewhat dismal existence in his cramped basement studios.