Movies: Eric Leiser

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

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....

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...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of works presented with a mixture of live action, stop motion animation, puppetry and pixilation techniques, produced between 2001 and 2006....

Terra Incognita is a multi-plane cut out animation made from photocopies of 19th century illustrations made during the race to the poles and drawings by Eric Leiser. For the puppet performance it was flat-rod puppets on a proscenium stage with a scre...

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

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal....

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...

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground....

Deep psychological states find relief through excess water released from eyes....

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

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...

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

Emerging from the sea onto land an axolotl swims through complex terrain parallel to a man searching for an encounter with God....

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

Seraphim Cloud grows up near a desert retirement community in the Dinétah (Navajo Nation) There Seraphim meets Howie Heehaw; a wandering rodeo show clown from Tibet seeking a flowering blue cactus seen in a powerful vision. This is a prequel feature ...

an intuiting of the core feelings of the Moses story relating to the current capitalistic global system all told through a hybrid of stop motion animation and live action....

A Romany woman travels from Praha to her home in Transylvania...

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 Cloud is born during a winter cyclone storm...