Eric Leiser Movies

a melancholic dream reveals Eternity

16mm life size stop motion puppetry and time lapse animation.

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

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

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...

Jack O’ Lantern folktale about the origin of the Will-o’-the-Wisp retold through a haunted doll’s mind’s eye.

Resulting from an ancient volcanic eruption, revered as sacred by the Chalun and Matsun Native American Tribes as the home of the...

mysteries of the sea are revealed before 4am. shot in Hastings, England in 2008

Regeneration is a film about transformation. Starting in a dark place the character reaches toward the divine and breaks into the world of the...

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

your mind can be a prison that you cannot escape

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

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...

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...

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

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

a stop motion journey into the womb

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

Directed and Animated by Eric Leiser.

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