Movies: Jeffrey Leiser

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 stop motion journey into the womb...

“Revelation” (Gr. apokalypsis) means the uncovering of something that has been previously hidden, in this case the final triumph of the kingdom of God....

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

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 personal experimental exploration of the book of Psalms in the Holy Bible...

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

A group of merchants and vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic musical based on the Icelandic Vinland sagas. As secrets are exposed, two women (Freydís and Gudrid) have a reckoning....

Seraphim Cloud is born during a winter cyclone storm...

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...

a couple dreams of renewal during the covid-19 pandemic...

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

Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and holographer working in New York and born in California. This program is available on kinoscope.org...

a short film from a decade back.. starring jeffrey and eric leiser ~ filmed and edited by jay masonek...

a melancholic dream reveals Eternity...

an unforgettable journey across the Icelandic landscape as mixing live action and pixilation to produce an enchanting, timeless short film. Shot on Kodachrome Super 8mm in western, northern, eastern and southen Iceland including interior Iceland in l...

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...

A short time lapse stop motion animation of horseshoe crabs coming ashore on a midsummer's eve....

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

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