George Griffin

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

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A duplicated documentary of a NYC sidewalk

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Like many of my films THUMBNAIL SKETCHES began as a flipbook. However this particular book didn't really flip. Each page instead of being one phase in a series (like a frame of film), contained a complete cycle of 8 drawings arranged in a rectangular ring. The reader had to construct the information conceptually not just optically as if it were a mosaic of abstract comic strip panels. The film begins with a 'live' prologue documenting the book's original form; then follows its destruction by scissors, a brief autopsy illustrating the mechanics of movement, and its eventual animated rebirth.

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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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Animated flipbook of endlessly evolving entrancement.

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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.

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

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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 and Puppet Theater’s annual Domestic Resurrection Circus, taking place soon after the company’s relocation from downtown Manhattan to the rural New England enclave where it remains headquartered to this day.

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

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A hand draws a flipbook of liquid architecture.

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

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Abstract exercise in pattern recognition.

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