Keith Griffiths

Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

Keith Griffiths

An overview of the career of experimental animator Len Lye.

Abstract Cinema

Keith Griffiths

Stan Brakhage, Jules Engel

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

Keith Griffiths

Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field.

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay

In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.

This Unnameable Little Broom

Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

Keith Griffiths, Larry Sider

Percy Press Snr., Percy Press Jnr.

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded in bringing about a rich and sardonic humor lurking at the edge of the playwright's macabre, death-obsessed imagination in an allusive homage.

Janacek: Intimate Excursions

Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay

Janacek: Intimate Excursions is a short experimental documentary that attempts to find visual references in the correspondence of Leos Janacek, the Czechoslovak composer.

Screen Pioneers No:3 Raul Ruiz

Keith Griffiths

Raúl Ruiz

This eccentric short directed by Keith Griffiths, outlines Ruiz’s work, biography and preoccupations and includes a rare interview with the director.