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“I guess danger and weirdness have always been the main features in most of my stories.”–Bruce Bickford
DIRECTED BY: Bruce Bickford
FEATURING: Bruce Bickford’s handmade clay models
PLOT: A man discovers a garden and figures oozing out of a hole, who he fashions into miniature people who then begin multiplying on their own. The man is then sucked into a planet which he has created, and chased first by vikings, then centurions. There is no coherent start-to-end plot, but some segments of the film enact mini-stories.
BACKGROUND:
- Animator Brice Bickford gained modest underground fame when his animations graced Frank Zappa‘s concert film Baby Snakes (1979) and The Dub Room Special (1982). Prometheus’ Garden is the only film Bickford made over which he had complete control, however.
- Prometheus’ Garden was completed in 1988, but rarely seen until a 2008 DVD release.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: We’ll go with the gang of newly-minted werewolves enjoying slices of pizza; an octopus lies on the pie along with the other toppings. Don’t like that pick? Skip to any random point in the movie and you’ll see something just as weird.
TWO WEIRD THINGS: Werewolf paint; monster pizza
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Human heads grow in a field. Imps and demons spontaneously generate from the soil. Clay figures disembowel each other. Nude Viking women slather themselves with Vaseline in the sauna. Every element of the movie is in constant motion for thirty minutes. Weird hardly even begins to cover it.
Original trailer for Prometheus’ Garden
COMMENTS: Flesh-colored flowers grow out of a green field, turning into big-headed monsters as cotton ball smoke wafts across the Continue reading 13*. PROMETHEUS’ GARDEN (1988)