Imagination

Imagination 2007

5.60

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 sure why her imaginary visions map so close to Anna's. At home, unable to face reality, their father leaves the family. To escape the pain, the girls sink deeper and deeper into their imagination. When a major earthquake takes their mother's life, Reineger gets more involved with helping the now-orphaned twins, while struggling with his realization that the girls seem to be capable of prophetic visions. The girls escape the doctor's institution and a subsequent search finds no trace of them. Have they transcended the physical realm? A mixture of live action, stop motion animation and other techniques makes this film a fantastic journey into the realm of imagination.

2007

Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita 2002

6.00

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 screen behind them, onto which the animation Terra Incognita is projected. Many of the sea monster puppets and ships performed in sync with the animated ones, along with splashes of water and powdered chalk to mimic snowfall. These techniques came from my time studying puppet theater in Prague, in 2002, and learning from Svankmajer and Svankmajerova. It was a lot of fun to both animate and to perform live with Jeffrey's wonder score. At the same time the film comments on the colonial race to claim the Arctic by various countries—a race that, in a sense, is still going on today, but this time again for oil—and the murders of the Inuit people who had inhabited the land for millennia.

2002

Dodo

Dodo 2023

1

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

2023

Apocalypsis

Apocalypsis 2018

6.25

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

2018

Twilight Park

Twilight Park 1970

1

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 order to save him.

1970

Freydís and Gudrid

Freydís and Gudrid 2024

1

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.

2024

LAND

LAND 2013

8.00

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, Sonoma County, California, Hastings, England. note* (part of the EYE Filmmuseum Permanent Collection)

2013

Cymatic Cocoon

Cymatic Cocoon 2007

6.00

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

2007

Set in Stone

Set in Stone 2017

1

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.

2017

Faustbook

Faustbook 2006

7.30

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

2006

Tír na nÓg

Tír na nÓg 2008

6.00

a woman's spiritual journey in Ireland on All Hallow-Een

2008

Glitch in the Grid

Glitch in the Grid 2011

7.80

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

2011

Forest

Forest 2008

5.80

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

2008

Faustbook (20th Anniversary Director's Cut)

Faustbook (20th Anniversary Director's Cut) 2025

7.00

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.

2025

Ghost Town

Ghost Town 2023

6.50

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

2023

Dwell With Me

Dwell With Me 2018

7.50

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

2018

Iceland

Iceland 2004

7.00

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 late summer 2004. Dedicated to Buddy King Leiser.

2004

Ephemera

Ephemera 2005

6.00

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

2005

BIRTH

BIRTH 2015

1

Seraphim Cloud is born during a winter cyclone storm

2015

Pinnacles

Pinnacles 2022

9.00

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 moments, spiritual guidance and forging new timelines within interpersonal landscapes.

2022