David Leister

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

Resembling a lost instructional film, Medicine Box draws attention to the repeated cycle of medical ingestion and how a small pill can have such a...

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...

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...

The greatest British film company emblematically deconstructed.

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