# animate! › Films › Withdrawal by George Barber › direction & collaboration

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, manipulated live action, video looping, family, memory, disappearance, experimental short film, filmmaker, video artist

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**Withdrawal** a film by George Barber

[George Barber](http://www.georgebarber.net)

1997, 3 min 47 sec

### George Barber

#### short biography

A pioneer of video art, once described by Art Monthly as “the Henry Ford of independent video art“, George Barber quickly gained an international reputation with ‘Scratch Video‘, an original fast-cutting, multi-layered rhythmic genre of work.

Michael Maziere

30 September 2004

**Withdrawal** film, stills and other materials © George Barber 1997