Two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton has been putting pen to paper and creating his unique animations for decades now. Idiots & Angels is a darkly comic film-noir-meets-fairy-tale about a dastardly fellow - the type who drinks too much and would beat someone down just because of the look on his face ? who awakens one morning to discover that he's growing a pair of wings. Worse, he's developed a compulsion to do nice things for people. Will his heathen ways return, or will he become the do-gooder his new physicality suggests? Will those he previously wronged forgive him, or will they take advantage of his newly nice ways? Over the years, Plympton has definitely developed his own unique style and it's on display in Idiots and Angels. Few animators are as distinctive and inventive. Idiots and Angels is a rare treat from one of the medium's masters.

Preceded by: Hot Dog (Bill Plympton, 2008, 6 minutes, USA) and Santa: The Fascist Years (Bill Plympton, 2008, 4 minutes, USA).