Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and holographer working in New York and born in California. This program is available on kinoscope.org
The world's largest stop-motion animation film. "Gulp" follows the adventures of a fisherman who is swallowed by a big fish. This animation was shot using a Nokia N8 phone by suspending three phones high above the action on a crane.
In the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets. Nicholas Grimshaw has returned to this haunted place, his childhood home, intent on breaking a generations old family curse. Grimshaw's journey takes him deep below the decaying mill,into mysterious, forgotten catacombs, where upon he confronts the very source of the evil that has corrupted his family. The Mill at Calder's End is a gothic tale inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and M.R. James and is told with the use of 36 inch tall bunraku rod puppets operated by puppeteers dressed in black.
Edda, a young mouse and the daughter of fairground operator Erwin, dreams of becoming a race car driver. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the European Grand Prix, Edda gets the opportunity to meet her idol, racing star Ed, and to help her father save his failing business. But to do so, she'll have to get behind the wheel herself.
In a world where one's emotions manifest as a living beast, two orphaned sisters must reconcile their fraught relationship as they cross the militarily occupied countryside.
Prince Philip, who longing to be with a prince of his own, must decide to follow the traditional tale or forge his own happily ever after.
Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.
A little covetous breeze makes a pretty melody blowing in the wind. The story of a mysterious journey of tiny creatures intertwine through the hommono wilderness.
This film tells about the discovery achieved at the intersection of many sciences: cybernetics, astrophysics, telepathy and veterinary medicine. Soviet scientists made a sensational invention - the device "TV-1" (a transistor of time) was designed. Trial samples were disguised in household items: they were equipped with beads, a flower and a cane. The owners of experimental devices were random people.
A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man to the brink.
In a forgotten village, a woman lives as the last inhabitant of a place filled with shadows and silences. One night, she finds herself trapped in a disturbing nightmare: a wake where ghosts pray and a single empty grave awaits. This strange ritual forces her to confront the limits of her memory, where the past and the echoes of her existence intertwine with death, revealing hidden truths about her loneliness.
The film takes place in Sunset Valley during a sudden undead uprising. As the town falls into chaos, most residents go into hiding. But Brittany, a teenage girl home alone while her parents vacation for their 20th anniversary, chooses a different path. Devastated by the loss of her boyfriend Chad — who died just two months prior in a car accident — Brittany gears up with her father’s tools and sets out to the town cemetery. Convinced that Chad might have been among the reanimated dead, her mission is not survival, but reunion.
Minha Casa Está Cheia de Estranhos
Uncle Jake
Strawberry Shortcake: Adventures on Ice Cream Island (2004)
Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
A king steals crowns from various other rulers.
Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.
Violeta loves best fishing into the darkest depths.