Film Format: 16mm

  • Red Book, The

    “The Red Book” is an elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three-dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language, and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac. “The Red Book” suggests the ways in which language defines us, and reaches back into dismemberment myths about creation of different tongues through the breaking apart of bodies (in this case, the woman’s body). As the film progresses, the submerged images of her stored memory appear and collide with the present world in circular rhythms, and there is a…

  • Lost Motion

    Gothic, mechanized and faintly arcane with a provocative erotic charge, Geiser‘s film floats the viewer in a surreal world of subconscious imaginings both seductive and deeply disturbing. “‘Lost Motion’ begins with a male toy figure set in a kitchen. We are familiar with this setting (we’ve all been in kitchens) but estranged from it as well (this kitchen is very creepy)….”- Barry Doyle

  • Burden of Dreams

    A film about the importance of dreams and how far one person is willing to go to make those dreams reality. It chronicles German director Werner Herzog’s making of “Fitzcarraldo” in the Peruvian Amazon. Disaster after disaster befalls Herzog and “Burden of Dreams” grows into a fascinating record of an obsessed genius in the grips of an artistic passion that knows no bounds. Besieged by torrential rains, attacks by armed Indians and the loss of his leading actors, Werner Herzog endures the storm.

  • Pineapple

    The film explores a triangular relationship between three women that explodes into violence when the woman controlling the relationship doesn’t get her way. It also explores the reality that to possess or control someone is not the same as loving them. Laura is a woman who desperately wants to possess her lover, but is insecure and unable to fully love her. In beginning Laura and Carrie are a happy couple, but as Laura has an affair with Cat, the relationship becomes unstable. Unable to control Carrie, Laura turns to physical and emotional abuse as her way of keeping Carrie under…

  • I Am Always Connected

    “I Am Always Connected” is about inseparable connections, like those between light and shadow, the mind and the body, the rational and the instinctual. The film is a new construction from footage originally made for a 1984 installation piece for the Lumen Travo, a gallery in Amsterdam. The original Super 8 film was projected hundreds of times in a loop. “I Am Always Connected” was filmed on a small country road near Nijmegen, The Netherlands. I painted the canvas backdrop based on photographs taken at the location. I recently returned to the location and found that all the trees had…

  • Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

    The confrontation with death and finitude….Death animates the sense of the intimacy of life whose measureless flow is a danger to the stability of things. (RBE)

  • Type O

    “Type O” explores a metaphorical comparison between blood and words. Combining stop-motion animation and experimental film techniques, the film inhabits a realm where the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. In an attempt to defeat her writer’s block, the central character engages in a physical struggle with her typewriter. A finger is caught by the random keying, drawing blood. With the first drop of blood split, words bubble to the surface and the writer’s block begins to clear. Just as blood is life-sustaining fluid, words are the writer’s lifeline. The organic qualities of blood and words are realized visually…

  • Awake at Dawn

    “Awake at Dawn” mingles narrative, experimental and animation techniques to enter the subconscious of a man who decides to abandon sleep in an attempt to refine his mind, body and spirit. Over the course of several sleepless nights the character slips further away from his immediate reality. In this misguided quest for fulfillment, the character alienates what is really important to him: the woman he loves, who in facing emotional abandonment leaves him in an ultimately sobering state of sleeplessness.

  • Preludes 13 – 18

    This is a collection of singly and doubly printed (2 frames for each one) hand-painted work in six parts: 1) Single-printed multi-colored watery “blobs” and “feathery” streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there’s an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate into patterns similar to the beginning of the film. 2) This begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of…

  • Preludes 19 – 24

    This is a collection of singly and doubly printed (2 frames for each one) hand-painted work in six parts: PRELUDE 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden clearings which are counterpointed by sections of multiple blobs of color, these effects alternating again and again to then become contrasted with pale washes of color deepening to end on blacks. PRELUDE 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared. The first two PRELUDES of…