Your Face

Your Face is a 1987 animated short film by Bill Plympton.[1] It involves a man seated in a chair crooning about the face of his lover, and as he sings, his own face starts to distort in various ways. His song ends abruptly when a mouth opens in the floor and swallows him and the chair whole; after the closing credits, the mouth reappears and licks its lips.

Your Face
Directed byBill Plympton
Music byMaureen McElheron
Production
company
Plymptoons Studio
Distributed byMedia, Inc.
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
3 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Music

The vocals are by Maureen McElheron, known for composing the songs in The Tune, also by Bill Plympton.[2] After the song was recorded,[3] it was slowed by one-third, giving the desired and unusual effect, also making the voice more masculine.[4] His face is distorted into many different shapes, such as a balloon, a cube and an ice cream cone.

Lyrics

The song is original,[5] made specifically for this short film, and the lyrics depict a metaphorical description of someone's face by using musical vocabulary to describe the beauty of their features.[6]

Legacy

The short received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[7] at the 60th Academy Awards.[8][9][10]

A variation of this short was used as the couch gag on The Simpsons's 29th season episode "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage", with Homer Simpson's face replacing the original man, and Dan Castellaneta singing the vocals. This version ends with the Simpson family sitting on their living room couch.[11]

Your Face was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.[12]

References

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