Eric Leiser
Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, experimental filmmaker, animator, holographer, puppeteer, writer, and former funeral director working in New York and born in California. An alumni of CalArt’s Experimental Animation program and the Fine Art program, Eric creates animated and live action feature films and shorts as well as intricate works integrating animation, puppetry, painting, holography, live performance and installation.
Eric has made 4 feature films to date, Faustbook, Imagination, Glitch in the Grid and Apocalypsis. The upcoming 5th animated feature film Twilight Park is in production. Along with feature films, 70 short films ranging from 1997 to present, mostly compose the artist's filmography. Eric's brother and frequent collaborator Jeffrey Leiser created the music and sound design for the four features and 70 short films with a few exceptions. The Leiser Brothers share the writing credits for feature films Imagination and Twilight Park with the addition of collaborator Maude Swift. Eric is also a well known holographer and fine artist, a plethora of books on contemporary art, animation and physics/optics have included chapters on the artist's work. Eric's work is part of the permanent collection of the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, NL and over 50 film collections worldwide including fine artworks.
Recent solo exhibitions include Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Binálé Video Art Biennial in Budapest, Roswell Museum in Roswell, NM, Centro Multimeios Museum and Planetarium in Porto, Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam, the Horse Hospital in London, Holocenter Museum in New York, Exploratorium Museum and Shapeshifters Cinema in the Bay Area, Galerie du Haut Pave Gallery in Paris, Galerie Entropia in Poland, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery and MaRS Gallery in Los Angeles, Sound of MU Gallery in Oslo, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and Goldsmiths, University of London. Group exhibitions include The Whitney Museum of American Art, Katrupgårdsamlingen Museum in Copenhagen, Mass MOCA, The MIT Museum, MOMus Museum in Thessaloniki, The Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum, Art MûR Gallery, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Cabinet Magazine among others. His animated/live action films have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MIT Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, The Istanbul Modern Museum of Art, MOMus Museum, MASS MoCA, Four-Dimensions Space Art Museum Beijing, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas Museum de Buenos Aires, Roswell Museum, Aster Arts Plaza Hiroshima, The Wexner Center, (BFI) British Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Filmforum, Shapeshifters Cinema, No Name Cinema, San Francisco Film Society, Oxford University, Goldsmiths-University of London, Royal College of Art, Harvard University, California Institute of the Arts, The Art Institute in Chicago, The New School, Pratt Institute and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing. Select film festivals include the Cannes Film Festival, Annecy International Animation Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival and the Cinanima Animation Festival.
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Películas (62)
Ethereal Grounds
2026 · Director, Cinematography, Animation
Alaska
2026 · Director, Cinematography
Portals
2026 · Director, Animation, Cinematography
Ghost Stay
2025 · Director, Animation, Cinematography
The Bell Foundry
2024 · Director, Cinematography
Ghost Town
2023 · Cinematography, Animation, Producer, Director
A Horseshoe Crab Story
2023 · Director, Animation
Dodo
2023 · Cinematography, Animation, Director
Pinnacles
2022 · Cinematography, Director
Seraphim on the Go!
2021 · Cinematography, Director, Animation
Santa Rosa
2021 · Cinematography, Director, Animation
Cure
2020 · Animation, Cinematography, Director
Secret
2020 · Director, Animation, Cinematography
Herione: Deo
2019 · Cinematography, Director, Animation
Ambient Chaconne
2019 · Animation, Cinematography, Director
Régime des Fleurs Chloë Sevigny Little Flower
2019 · Director, Animation
Dwell With Me
2018 · Director, Cinematography, Animation
Apocalypsis
2018 · Cinematography, Animation, Screenplay, Story, Director
Deathless
2018 · Director, Animation, Cinematography, Art Direction
Apocalypsis:Theosis
2017 · Animation, Cinematography, Director
Set in Stone
2017 · Cinematography, Art Direction, Director, Animation
Superfluidity
2017 · Animation, Cinematography, Director
Escape
2017 · Director, Animation, Art Direction, Cinematography
Anthropic Principle
2016 · Animation, Director, Cinematography
Elephuck
2016 · Director, Animation, Cinematography, Art Direction
Experimental Film of Eric Leiser (Volume 1,2,3)
2015 · Cinematography, Director, Animation
BIRTH
2015 · self, Cinematography, Animation, Director
LAND
2013 · Director, Animation, Cinematography
If I (Was)
2013 · Animation, Director
Broken Dream
2012 · Cinematography, Director, Art Direction, Animation
Living Waters
2012 · Director, Cinematography, Animation
Prisms
2012 · Thanks
Glitch in the Grid
2011 · Eric, Screenplay, Director, Cinematography, Animation
Norsk Folksang
2011 · Director, Cinematography, Animation
Maelstrom
2010 · Director, Animation, Cinematography
Hastings Conqueror
2010 · Animation, Cinematography, Director
Regeneration
2009 · Animation, Director, Cinematography
Irrational Numbers
2008 · Director, Cinematography, Animation
Forest
2008 · Cinematography, Director, Animation
Tír na nÓg
2008 · Cinematography, Director
Cymatic Cocoon
2007 · Director, Cinematography
Imagination
2007 · self, Director, Animation, Art Designer, Screenplay
Womb
2007 · Art Direction, Animation, Director
Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser
2006 · self, Director
Faustbook
2006 · Devil, Director, Cinematography, Animation
Beyond the Forest
2006 · Cinematography, Director, Animation
Dream: One
2005 · Director, Animation
Ephemera
2005 · Director of Photography, Director
Young Faustus
2005 · Director
Lot in Sodom
2005 · Director
Iceland
2004 · Animation, Director, Cinematography
Landvættir
2004 · Director
Schism
2003 · Director, Art Direction
Psalms
2003 · David, Producer, Cinematography, Director, Production Design, Art Designer, Animation
Terra Incognita
2002 · Director, Animation
Autumn
2001 · Director, Cinematography
Prelude
2001 · Director, Animation, Cinematography
Waking a Dream
2000 · Director, Animation
Vampire
1999 · Vampire/Brother, Animation
Dreamer
1999 · self, Director
Twilight Park
· Cinematography, Screenplay, Director, Animation
Twilight Park (Bell Tower)
· Director, Animation, Cinematography, Art Direction, Writer, Animation Director
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