Eric Leiser

Directing·Los Angeles, U.S.A

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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. .

Film	Credit
Alaska2026 · Director	Director
Portals2026 · Director	Director
Ghost Stay2025 · Director	Director
The Bell Foundry2024 · Director	Director
Ghost Town2023 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
A Horseshoe Crab Story2023 · Director	Director
Dodo2023 · Director	Director
Pinnacles2022 · Director	Director
Seraphim on the Go!2021 · Director	Director
Santa Rosa2021 · Director	Director
Cure2020 · Director	Director
Secret2020 · Director	Director
Herione: Deo2019 · Director	Director
Ambient Chaconne2019 · Director	Director
Régime des Fleurs Chloë Sevigny Little Flower2019 · Director	Director
Dwell With Me2018 · Director	Director
Apocalypsis2018 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Deathless2018 · Director	Director
Apocalypsis:Theosis2017 · Director	Director
Set in Stone2017 · Director	Director
Superfluidity2017 · Director	Director
Escape2017 · Director	Director
Anthropic Principle2016 · Director	Director
Elephuck2016 · Director	Director
Experimental Film of Eric Leiser (Volume 1,2,3)2015 · Director	Director
BIRTH2015 · self, Director	self, Director
LAND2013 · Director	Director
If I (Was)2013 · Director	Director
Broken Dream2012 · Director	Director
Living Waters2012 · Director	Director
Glitch in the Grid2011 · Eric, Director, Screenplay	Eric, Director, Screenplay
Norsk Folksang2011 · Director	Director
Maelstrom2010 · Director	Director
Hastings Conqueror2010 · Director	Director
Regeneration2009 · Director	Director
Irrational Numbers2008 · Director	Director
Forest2008 · Director	Director
Tír na nÓg2008 · Director	Director
Cymatic Cocoon2007 · Director	Director
Imagination2007 · self, Director, Screenplay	self, Director, Screenplay
Womb2007 · Director	Director
Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser2006 · self, Director	self, Director
Faustbook2006 · Devil, Director	Devil, Director
Beyond the Forest2006 · Director	Director
Dream: One2005 · Director	Director
Ephemera2005 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
Young Faustus2005 · Director	Director
Lot in Sodom2005 · Director	Director