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 offer the orphan the love that she needs.

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

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

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 bed, A LITTLE ROUTINE perfectly captures the many nuances of the parent-child war zone that is bedtime.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.