Movies: George Griffin

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The...

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the grandmother cann...

A documentary about the early days of animation....

A documentary about the early days of animation....

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....

The film is a travelogue of sorts. Ostrovsky’s personal family footage meets the archives of Soviet propaganda footage. The result is a kind of Khruschev-era mix with a collage of Soviet music and a voice-over of my reminiscences of the Cold War era....

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

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....

Funny collage of sea, sun and ice. A show from the beach with skiers, tigers, mermaids and much more....

"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 wi...

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

A felinosophy of life....

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry....

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....

A library patron with a really bad cough irritates another patron, who decides to retaliate....

Animated flipbook of endlessly evolving entrancement....

A hand draws a flipbook of liquid architecture....

Tri-colored cycle of a dance movement set to a prelude from Bach's well-tempered clavier....

The man just wants a piece of candy. The candy machine just wants a piece of the man. A cartoon employing a novel xerox technique to combine animation and live action....

Abstract exercise in pattern recognition....