George Griffin

A Little Routine (1994)

For any harried parent who has ever been faced with having to put a recalcitrant child to bed, this very sweet and funny tale of nighttime shenanigans will resonate with rueful truth. From songs and stories, to toilet rituals, to creepy things under the bed, A ...  (more)

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For any harried parent who has ever been faced with having to put a recalcitrant child to bed, this very sweet and funny tale of nighttime shenanigans will resonate with rueful truth. From songs and stories, to toilet rituals, to creepy things under the bed, A ...  (more)

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Academy Leader Variations (1987)

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Georges Schwizgebel  •  Piotr Dumała  •  Jerzy Kucia  •  Yan Dingxian  •  Stanisław Lenartowicz  •  Jane Aaron  •  David Ehrlich  •  Hu Jinqing  •  Chang Guangxi  •  George Griffin  •  Skip Battaglia  •  A. Da  •  Paul Glabicki  •  Al Jarnow  •  Krzysztof Kiwerski  •  Claude Luyet  •  Daniel Suter  •  Martial Wannaz  •  Wenxiao Lin  •  He Yumen
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Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Georges Schwizgebel  •  Piotr Dumała  •  Jerzy Kucia  •  Yan Dingxian  •  Stanisław Lenartowicz  •  Jane Aaron  •  David Ehrlich  •  Hu Jinqing  •  Chang Guangxi  •  George Griffin  •  Skip Battaglia  •  A. Da  •  Paul Glabicki  •  Al Jarnow  •  Krzysztof Kiwerski  •  Claude Luyet  •  Daniel Suter  •  Martial Wannaz  •  Wenxiao Lin  •  He Yumen
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Flying Fur (1981)

USA, 1981, colour, sound, 7 min.  (more)

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USA, 1981, colour, sound, 7 min.  (more)

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Ko-Ko (1988)

Using a 1945 Charlie Parker song, American indie animator, George Griffin greets us with a dizzying dance of torn Pop Art images. Shreds of consumer culture flash before us, swayed and absorbed by the tempo and power of Parker's horn.  (more)

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Using a 1945 Charlie Parker song, American indie animator, George Griffin greets us with a dizzying dance of torn Pop Art images. Shreds of consumer culture flash before us, swayed and absorbed by the tempo and power of Parker's horn.  (more)

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New Fangled (1990)

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.  (more)

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A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.  (more)

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Coal Creek (2015)

Animator George Griffin recalls racial discord in his eastern Tennessee hometown. A collage of photographs, maps, interviews, cartoons, and jazz highlights the horrors of a hatred that reverberates to this day.  (more)

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Animator George Griffin recalls racial discord in his eastern Tennessee hometown. A collage of photographs, maps, interviews, cartoons, and jazz highlights the horrors of a hatred that reverberates to this day.  (more)

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Head (1975)

"The most elaborate of his 'anti-cartoons,' as he calls them, is HEAD (1975), an ingenious, witty essay on making filmed, photographed, drawn, painted, and Xeroxed images move. Reverberating between multi-media versions of the same events, playing with disjunctions ...  (more)

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"The most elaborate of his 'anti-cartoons,' as he calls them, is HEAD (1975), an ingenious, witty essay on making filmed, photographed, drawn, painted, and Xeroxed images move. Reverberating between multi-media versions of the same events, playing with disjunctions ...  (more)

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Viewmaster (1976)

Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.  (more)

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Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.  (more)

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BLOCK PRINT (1978)

A duplicated documentary of a NYC sidewalk  (more)

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A duplicated documentary of a NYC sidewalk  (more)

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Lineage (1979)

Essay on animation's contradictory legacy: comedy and formalism.  (more)

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Essay on animation's contradictory legacy: comedy and formalism.  (more)

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The Club (1975)

All the members of an old men's club are large phalluses.  (more)

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All the members of an old men's club are large phalluses.  (more)

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It's an O.K. Life (1980)

An animated futuristic autobiography of a man born in the year 2000.  (more)

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An animated futuristic autobiography of a man born in the year 2000.  (more)

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