Your Face

Your Face
1987
★★★☆☆ 6.6/10
⏱️ 3 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
MusicAnimationComedy
A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

User Reviews

CinemaSerf
★ 7/10
June 20, 2025
This is as much an animation to listen to as watch as this gent finds his face stretched, spun, shrunk, shredded and generally manipulated. He serenades us with a song about his visage - one that looks like it might be suffering from a bit of gout, and about that of his beloved with some fun rhymes to accompany these colourful contortions. From what I could tell, there’s not really any story as such here, it’s more a collection of enjoyably zany and abstract cartoons from an imaginative Bill Plympton loosely connected by a neck and an only occasionally connected torso. Visually, it’s a bit like one of those kaleidoscope toys you had as a kid where shapes change randomly but still with some symmetry and order to them. It’s an enjoyable few minutes of skilful drawing.

Crew

Director
Bill Plympton
Writer
Bill Plympton
Producer
Bill Plympton

Production

Plymptoons, Bill Plympton Studios

Keywords

surrealismlovesingerserenadefacetenorpianohand drawn animationhand drawnshort film