5/5 Description Of My Work
  by albinofawn (Praha, CZ)
This DVD contains many of the short hand crafted personal Experimental Narrative/Avant Garde films i made between 2001- 2006. Many of my films are hybrids of Live Action and rare techniques of Animation containing spiritual themes told from a surrealistic approuch. My work covers a wide range of themes, techniques, structures and cryptographic symbolism yet remains coherantly part of an overall aesthetic message or body. Those who might enjoy this DVD would probably be lovers of Hayao Miyasaki, Jan Svankmajer, Guy Maddin, Bros Quay and alas Tim Burton among others. Enjoy!

5/5 Amazing early work of Eric Leiser
  by Sherlock Wooster
Produced between 2001 and 2006, this collection of animated shorts from the uncommon mind of Erik Leiser reveals the artist's unique vision and otherworldly aesthetic. By mixing color and black-and-white, live action and stop-motion, and puppetry and pixilation techniques, Leiser has created a animation style that's drawn comparisons to that of Jan Svankmajer and Tim Burton yet remains distinctly his own.

5/5 Visionary
  by Jennifer M. Colville (London, England)
This collection of works will be treasured as the early work of two young Visionaries- a must for any connoisseur of the Avant-Garde. What emerges in it- through it- is a unique and powerful synthetic Vision that vibrates with positive intent- that of Wonder. We need not compare it to Burton or any of the `Masters' because what emerges here is no mere mimicry of previous filmmakers- but a sensitive and skilled adaptation and elaboration of film language- crafted and emerging as its own unique voice or I should say duet- maybe chorus? Burton and Svankmejer- even the Brothers Quay did not have such collaboration- such cohesion with their soundtracks, and indeed Jeffery Leiser's soundtracks are intimately linked with the images of his brother- adding levels and depths of motion, colour and life through sound. And as for my own tastes- indeed the Leiser Brothers are far less tritely morbid, serialized and clichéd as Burton and far more symbolically sophisticated. Eric Leiser's work is far more joyfully mystical and whimsical than Svankmejer- but it contains within it similar eerie and uncanny boundaries crossed between animate and inanimate; animal, vegetable and mineral. The Quay Brothers Animate a dead world- a world of identification with objects and dead matter- nothing is ever quite alive. The Leiser Brothers see a world in which everything is deeply infused with life and light- a Vision, it could be said, which is highly infectious- in a good way.

1/5 fairly disappointed
  by Jonathan Hart (chatsworth, ca)
after reading the product description, i had pretty high expectations for this. let me just tell you, these shorts have nothing in common with jan svankmajer, the brothers quay, or tim burton. they're mostly long meandering shots of landscapes. each short feels as long as kubrick's 2001. i also bought eric leiser's feature, "imagination" and liked it quite a bit. i suggest anyone interested in him buy imagination instead.

4/5 Sublime Images
  by Sean Callinan (Five Dock, NSW Australia)
A very surprising collection from someone promoted for his association with MTV. These films vary in style quite a bit, but the overwhelming feeling is one of reverential beauty and metaphysical search. The relationship of the filmmaker with his composer brother also comes across strongly, both in the work and in the supplementary material. The Leiser brothers eschew the rapid-fire facile flashiness of so much current motion work, and replace it with contemplative and spacious explorations of landscape and spirituality, both internal and external. Not for the impatient, or those in need of conventional narrative structures, but very rewarding for anyone willing to allow an opening in the mind for the Leiser's particular vision.