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

Twilight Park

Twilight Park 2025

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.

2025

Ghost Town

Ghost Town 2023

10.00

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

2023

BIRTH

BIRTH 2015

1

Seraphim Cloud is born during a winter cyclone storm

2015

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

Forest

Forest 2008

5.80

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

2008

Apocalypsis

Apocalypsis 2018

6.30

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

2018

Dreamer

Dreamer 1999

7.50

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

1999

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

Secret

Secret 2020

8.00

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground.

2020

Anthropic Principle

Anthropic Principle 2016

6.00

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 Chrissie Iles

2016

Ephemera

Ephemera 2005

6.00

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

2005

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

Ambient Chaconne

Ambient Chaconne 2019

6.00

A time-lapse animated meditation on geothermal energy, erosion, seismic activity and magma. Shot above the Yellowstone Caldera and amongst the Bryce Canyon hoodoos, the film explores how they connect these past cataclysms to the present endangered environment within the sixth mass extinction and future threats to an ecosystem already in collapse. The musical accompaniment, composed and performed by Pauline Kim Harris, is based on a reimagining of the Chaconne from the Partita No.2 in D minor (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach.

2019

Autumn

Autumn 2001

6.00

childhood memories of Autumn

2001

Faustbook

Faustbook 2006

7.30

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

2006

Escape

Escape 2017

1

your mind can be a prison that you cannot escape

2017

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

Cure

Cure 2020

5.00

a couple dreams of renewal during the covid-19 pandemic

2020

Living Waters

Living Waters 2012

5.00

John 4:13-14: Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life

2012