George Griffin

A Little Routine

George Griffin

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 LITTLE ROUTINE perfectly captures the many nuances of the parent-child war zone that is bedtime.

The Club

George Griffin

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

It's an O.K. Life

George Griffin

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

Head

George Griffin

"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 between figure and ground, HEAD is a 'trickfilm' meditation on portraiture; the animator, as actor, lives through his drawings, which in turn become actors who influence his own self-image. An insider's diary on the process of creation, HEAD is a brilliant encyclopedic exploration of the circular relationship between the animator and his creation, of the nature of animated illusion itself." -Thelma Schenkel, Millimeter

Viewmaster

George Griffin

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

Academy Leader Variations

A. Da, Skip Battaglia

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.

BLOCK PRINT

George Griffin

A duplicated documentary of a NYC sidewalk

Flying Fur

George Griffin

USA 1981/2016, digital, colour, sound, 7 min Provided by the artist (Tate Modern)

Lineage

George Griffin

George Griffin

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

New Fangled

George Griffin

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

Coal Creek

George Griffin

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.

Ko-Ko

George Griffin

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.