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Losing the Thread (2015)

"Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has unraveled some since and Deleuze's definition of style: 'creating a foreign language in one's own language,' ...

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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. ...

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CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES (2013)

Based on a correspondence between Brazilian artist Ione Saldanha and the filmmaker, this portrait was made for an exhibition at the MAM (Museum of Modern Art) in Rio de Janeiro. Ione Saldanha (1919-2001) was a contemporary of Lygia Clark, Sonia Delaunay, a ...

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Ice/Sea (2005)

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

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Nikita Kino (2003)

"The film is a travelogue of sorts. In 1960 my family lived in Brazil when my father discovered his sister and brother in Moscow, who he hadn't seen for 40 years, were still alive. Since they couldn't leave the USSR we went to visit them regularly for abou ...

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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 be ...

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New Fangled (1990)

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

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The Reading Room (1990)

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

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Zelly & Me (1988)

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 off ...

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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. ...

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The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

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 Y ...

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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. ...

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The Soldier's Tale (1984)

A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil. ...

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Flying Fur (1981)

USA, 1981, colour, sound, 7 min. ...

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

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

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Lineage (1979)

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

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BLOCK PRINT (1978)

A duplicated documentary of a NYC sidewalk ...

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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. ...

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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 portr ...

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The Club (1975)

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

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The Meadows Green (1975)

Fantastical, larger-than-life puppetry and rambunctiously playful choreography is framed against an Edenic backdrop of Vermont farm country in George Griffin and DeeDee Halleck's luminous, lyrical short film, which documents the 1974 edition of the Bread a ...

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Trikfilm 1 (1973)

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

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Trikfilm 3 (1973)

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

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The Candy Machine (1972)

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. ...

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Rapid Transit (1969)

Edible animation. Silhouettes of black beans creating mandala patterns with frenzied percussion on track. ...

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Displacement (1969)

Abstract exercise in pattern recognition. ...

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Movies Starring George Griffin (3)

Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 (2008)

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

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Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920 (2007)

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

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Lineage (1979)

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

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