Eric Leiser

Biography

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 …

Directed

1. Forest (2008) — Director
2. Apocalypsis (2018) — Director
3. Imagination (2007) — Director
4. Glitch in the Grid (2011) — Director
5. Faustbook (2006) — Director
6. Ghost Town (2023) — Director
7. Dream: One (2005) — Director
8. Dwell With Me (2018) — Director
9. Dreamer (1999) — Director
10. Pinnacles (2022) — Director
11. Iceland (2004) — Director
12. If I (Was) (2013) — Director
13. Experimental Film of Eric Leiser (Volume 1,2,3) (2015) — Director
14. Secret (2020) — Director
15. Ghost Stay (2025) — Director
16. Cymatic Cocoon (2007) — Director
17. Autumn (2001) — Director
18. Prelude (2001) — Director
19. Terra Incognita (2002) — Director
20. Schism (2003) — Director
21. Maelstrom (2010) — Director
22. Seraphim on the Go! (2021) — Director
23. Norsk Folksang (2011) — Director
24. LAND (2013) — Director
25. Regeneration (2009) — Director
26. Beyond the Forest (2006) — Director
27. Tír na nÓg (2008) — Director
28. Hastings Conqueror (2010) — Director
29. Dream (2000) — Director
30. Anthropic Principle (2016) — Director
31. Ephemera (2005) — Director
32. Living Waters (2012) — Director
33. Ambient Chaconne (2019) — Director
34. Superfluidity (2017) — Director
35. Apocalypsis:Theosis (2017) — Director
36. Cure (2020) — Director
37. Santa Rosa (2021) — Director
38. The Bell Foundry (2024) — Director
39. Lot in Sodom (2005) — Director
40. Dodo (2023) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Imagination (2007) — self
2. Glitch in the Grid (2011) — Eric
3. Faustbook (2006) — Devil
4. Dreamer (1999) — self
5. Psalms (2003) — David
6. Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser (2006) — self
7. Vampire (1999) — Vampire/Brother
8. BIRTH (2015) — self