David Leister Movies

Sound of the Damned combines the lyricism of Julie Andrews with the terror of Children of the Damned in an experiment of alchemy. Hand processed...

Sally Rand's famous Bubble Dance routine is re-created and reprinted in a 3D-ish effect, this time with extra added foley.

A simple studio ident is deconstructed to reveal more than you’d expect about what lies behind the image of Hollywood.

Harry's perfectly normal adopted son Alan becomes disfigured by a Lollipop lady and thus becomes the boy with the big face and has to live through...

The greatest British film company emblematically deconstructed.

The Masque of the Red Safelight delivers a warning to an out-of-focus gathering, with a pinch of vinegar syndrome. A degraded archive print is...

John and Marge Schlintz have lived across the street from my parents old house in Franklin, Wisconsin, ever since I can remember. John always seemed...

Starts Wednesday steals from a selection of forgotten 35mm cinema 'snipes' that offer days of the week for a film that never arrives.

In this town, I reckon that every place has had a coat of paint since I've lived here. There's always a bit of gloss drying somewhere

The 16mm image of domestic blinds also forms the optical soundtrack, making the contained domestic environment dazzle.

Optical printing brings to life the Bride of Frankenstein. The film is re-appropriated, re-animated and given another life via the filmmaker's 16mm...

Filmed on location in the empty Olympic venues built for the Berlin 1936 Olympics, the interweaving of the architecture and two fencers performing a...

A faded film ending from the 1966 Royal Ballet of Prokifiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Fonteyn and Nureyev receive endless appreciation, taking a bow...

A 35mm trailer print of Mission Impossible is cut up, dismantled, refilmed, replayed, reassembled, re-edited with tape and scissors and repeated to...

Following a fire in the studio, this film is a result of the after-effects of the smoke damage. The smoke left a negative imprint on every surface,...

Set to the recollected soundtrack from the film ‘Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, 100 Foot Steps is an uneasy walk in the woods. Music...

Actions speak louder than words in this cryptic re-appropriation of 16mm found footage about selling insurance. A film where you need to read between...

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and...

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and...

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and...