Director
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.
Title Graphics
A felinosophy of life.
Special Effects
Funny collage of sea, sun and ice. A show from the beach with skiers, tigers, mermaids and much more.
Animation
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.
Director
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.
Thanks
A library patron with a really bad cough irritates another patron, who decides to retaliate.
Director
USA 1990, digital, colour, sound, 2 min
Provided by the artist (Tate Modern)
Title Designer
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 cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs.
Director
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.
Animation
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 New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Director
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.
Director
USA 1981/2016, digital, colour, sound, 7 min Provided by the artist (Tate Modern)
Director
Essay on animation's contradictory legacy: comedy and formalism.
Director
A duplicated documentary of a NYC sidewalk
Director
Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.
Director
"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
Director
All the members of an old men's club are large phalluses.
Director
An animated futuristic autobiography of a man born in the year 2000.
