Idiots and Angels

Watch Idiots and Angels (2008) online on iFILM — an animated dark comedy written and directed by Bill Plympton, American independent animation's most idiosyncratic filmmaker. The film runs almost dialogue-free, carried by jazz and hand-drawn imagery.

Angel is a rotten, self-absorbed regular at a dingy bar — no one's favourite person. One morning he wakes up with wings that have their own agenda: they keep doing good things against his will. He finds this intolerable. Things get more complicated when word gets out and others want those wings for considerably darker purposes. Plympton turns it into a fable about conscience as an outside force — bleak and funny in roughly equal measure. Stream Idiots and Angels (2008) online on iFILM.