An archive of independant animation by George GRIFFIN (1969 / 2004 - USA)
Including prize-winning shorts, experimental films, gallery installations, and commissioned works.
GRIFFITI is ideal for analyzing and appreciating studies in technique and material (Head, Block Print), cartoons and reflexive anti-cartoons (Viewmaster, Lineage) and narratives like A Little Routine, including the filmmaker’s new commentary on its storyboard and production.
DVD NTSC All Zones
Colors
Mono Sound
English Language Lenght 2h22 approx |
DVD NTSC All Zones
Colors
Mono Sound
English Language Lenght 2h22 approx |
George GRIFFIN
Self Portrait
George Griffin was born in Atlanta in 1943 and spent most of his early life in Knoxville, Tennessee.
After serving in the Army, Griffin received a degree in political science at Dartmouth College, then moved to New York City in 1967 and learned animated cartoon production as an apprentice at several commercial studios. Influenced by the "underground" films of Robert Breer and Stan VanDerBeek, he built an animation stand and began making his own experimental films.
Griffin has received many grants, including a Guggenheim. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, New York University, Hunter College and Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, an artist-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Art at Ghent (Belgium), and a MacDowell Fellow. He has served on the juries of the animation festivals of Zagreb, Stuttgart, Fantoche and Ottawa. Griffin has published numerous flipbooks and Frames, a selection of animators’ drawings and statements; his reviews and articles have appeared in Film Comment, ASIFA News, Journal of the University Film Association and Entertext. His films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and his drawings were published in Raw magazine. A Little Routine, won the Unicef Award at the 1994 Ottawa Animation Festival. Griffiti, a 90 minute compilation of his independent work, including Head, The Club, Viewmaster, Lineage, New Fangled, Ko-Ko was released on video in 1996. A DVD, Griffiti Archive, including more experimental work, was released in 2004.
Griffin’s worked as a commercial director at Colossal Pictures on campaigns for Rubin Postaer, GSD&M Advertising, J. Walter Thompson, and Ogilvy & Mather, among others. He line produced R.O. Blechman’s The Soldier’s Tale, the PBS Great Performances program, which won an Emmy in 1985. His studio Metropolis Graphics has produced numerous spots, industrials and opening title sequences (Film Forum, New York Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival ). Recently he produced a PSA for the NYC AIDS Hotline campaign, a series for ITVS "Kids 99," and the opener and graphics for the HBO Family series, Kindergarten.
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