Head, 1975—A Short Film by George Griffin

A gem of analog animation, George Griffin’s "Head" (1975) offers a delightfully snarky and clever self-portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man, undone by his own cartoon surrogate. The filmmaker combines a number of animation techniques, including flipbooks, stop-motion, and altered documentary footage, often within the same frame. Its structure is discontinuous, non-narrative; its focus, self-referential; its aim, to re-examine the pioneering trickfilm processes of Émile Cohl with contemporary wit and irony. An example of the experimental spirit of independent animation of the 1970s. Music by Fred Israel.

Learn more about the work of George Griffin at http://www.geogrif.com

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