Movies: Eric Leiser

Twilight Park, a life size stop motion animated feature film about a boy Seraphim who along with Howie Heehaw; a rodeo show clown from Tibet, gets the chance to enter his narcoleptic/dementia addled Grandpa's mind and live out his past memories in or...

A young girl is lost in a forest filled with eyeball trees, skeletal animals and a nephilim...

Set in a parallel universe entering a black hole, a woman reading the book of Revelation has visions of regeneration during Anthropocene....

Dr. Reineger, a famous neuro-psychologist, has become convinced that a twin girl named Anna has a rare form of Autism called Asperger's Syndrome, rendering her unable to cope with reality. As for her blind sister, Sarah, the doctor cannot say for sur...

LAND is a fluid series of formal land animation experiments based upon the imprint of landscapes in various locations and intuitive interpretations of those movements. Shot in New York, Thimble Islands Bear Island, Connecticut, Armstrong Redwoods, S...

arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at the Whitney Museum of American Art part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 organized by Chri...

Inspired by Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and Goethe's Faust, Faustus develops an obsession with his namesake, Johann Georg Faust. As Faustus delves deeper into man and legend, he enters a labyrinthine realm....

A time-lapse animated meditation on geothermal energy, erosion, seismic activity and magma. Shot above the Yellowstone Caldera and amongst the Bryce Canyon hoodoos, the film explores how they connect these past cataclysms to the present endangered en...

Seraphim Cloud and his life size doppelgänger enter the netherworld of Calico Ghost Town deep within the Mojave Desert....

Resulting from an ancient volcanic eruption, revered as sacred by the Chalun and Matsun Native American Tribes as the home of the Firebird/Thunderbird (California Condor) a supernatural being of power and strength. Pinnacles represents transcendent m...

John 4:13-14: Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life...

your mind can be a prison that you cannot escape...

protagonist hoping to be taken in dreams into the hereafter falls in love with a person who is indifferent. Suffering heartbreak after confessing love, the protagonist drives to the California redwoods and dies while dreaming....

Seraphim visits a bell foundry and learns how to cast Sevenik Sevenicius the largest bell in the world....

A troubled mortician embarks on an odyssey for truth about life and death....

Regeneration is a film about transformation. Starting in a dark place the character reaches toward the divine and breaks into the world of the spirit. Through this act representing an outstretched hand we see that the Holy Spirit represented as a dov...

the tale of the Dodo seen through a child's eyes...

The protagonist feels dead in waking life and alive in dreams....

DEO A reimagining of Deo Gratias (ca. 1497) by Johannes Ockeghem. A Film by Eric Leiser. Animation by Eric Leiser. Composed by Pauline Kim Harris and Spencer Topel Deo is an acoustic-electronic transcription of Johannes Ockeghem’s stunning Deo Gra...

a life size stop motion child puppet races through memories and daydreams reflecting on the cyclical nature of life....