Head, 1975-A Short Film by George Griffin | From the Vaults

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.
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[@synthsoul5660]

wow, very innovative

[@diskkun4120]

Some of this has to be inspired by Jan Svankmajer... those heads at 3:00 are just like the ones in Dimensions of Dialogue.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

This film came out a few years before that.

[@diskkun4120]

@@ChristopherSobieniak Yeah I realize that now 😅 Also really bizarre, I was watching this video for the first time in years at about the same time you commented.

[@akshadao]

Yey wow super, i know english little bit, so i understand little bit, but your expression is very fair and cute, i am impressing for your reaction

[@raymondlawson8914]

Cool

[@SlayObama]

what format is this? its a nice size

[@somerandomname3124]

Complicated pictures.

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

They just don't make them like they used to.

[@gwendolynriot]

6:11 I thought it was iPad about to broke

[@erdwaenor]

That scene also impressed me; it made me think Griffin was the inventor of the smartphone. 😹 Well ahead of his time.

[@fernandodavid9495]

Me every time after the lobotomy😂:

[@shadowraith1]

Can't like them all. :(