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Monster Road is a feature length documentary exploring the wildly fantastic worlds of legendary animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's iconoclastic worldview, the film journeys back to Bickford's childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his father, George, who is facing the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

Monster Road premiered at the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival where it won "Best Documentary," eventually screening at over 85 festivals around the world, winning sixteen awards before premiering on Sundance Channel in June 2005.

 

View the trailer and clips and buy the DVD. Bruce Bickford is a pure artist of modest means. When you buy the Monster Road or Prometheus' Garden/Luck of a Foghorn DVDs directly from this site, you maximize your support of this underground animator whose work continues to inspire new generations of artists.

 

 

What the critics are saying about Monster Road:

 

"Fascinating, disturbing, and often hilarious"
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

 

"A captivating story"
-WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS

 

"A must see"
- ANIMATION MAGAZINE

 

"Enthralling"
- THE OREGONIAN

 

"Excellent"
- ANIMATION WORLD JOURNAL

 

" ****1/2 "
- FILM THREAT

 

"Oddly hypnotic"

- BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY

 

"A detailed and intelligent portrait"
- SENSES OF CINEMA

 

"Major achievements in form"
- SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

 

"Weightlessly examines heavy existential questions"
- WILLAMETTE WEEK