George Griffin Movies

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...

A documentary about the early days of animation.

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...

A documentary about the early days of animation.

Fantastical, larger-than-life puppetry and rambunctiously playful choreography is framed against an Edenic backdrop of Vermont farm country in George...

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations...

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

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

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...

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

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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...

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

A felinosophy of life.

"The most elaborate of his 'anti-cartoons,' as he calls them, is HEAD (1975), an ingenious, witty essay on making filmed, photographed, drawn,...

USA, 1981, colour, sound, 7 min.

Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic...

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

Animator George Griffin recalls racial discord in his eastern Tennessee hometown. A collage of photographs, maps, interviews, cartoons, and jazz...

A hand draws a flipbook of liquid architecture.