18 Facts About Janie Geiser

Janie Geiser was born in 1957 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Janie Geiser is the second oldest child among six total children.

Janie Geiser attended the University of Georgia and graduated with a degree in visual art.

Janie Geiser created her first puppetry performance, Little Eddie, in the center's basement, and developed several works there under the name Jottay Theater, with puppeteers and musicians from Atlanta.

Janie Geiser created a number of key works there, including Stories from Here, developed with the Jottay Theater, including writer Neill Bogan and composer Chip Epsten.

In 1990, Janie Geiser released the first of her three short puppet films, Royal Terror Theater.

Janie Geiser received the 2023 Stan Brakhage Vision Award at the Denver Film Festival.

Janie Geiser's films have been screened at major museums including MOMA, the Whitney Museum, LACMA, SFMOMA, and others.

Janie Geiser's films have screened at festivals including The New York Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and others.

Around 2008 during the creation of her film, Ghost Algebra, Janie Geiser experienced a strange health problem.

Janie Geiser visited all kinds of doctors, had an MRI, went to a neurologist, and what seemed to help the most was a combination of acupuncture and herbs.

Janie Geiser has made an extremely cryptic piece of highly original cut-out animation with a mystery and menace that recall David Lynch's early shorts.

Janie Geiser filmed the dollhouse in broad daylight giving the film a more natural light, but the shading from the leaves outside her window casts equivocal and dark shadows into the rooms.

Since Janie Geiser used minimal markers when it came to making the video, much was left to be exposed to the elements.

Janie Geiser combines stop-motion animation, using objects such as dolls, toys, paper, and other found objects, along with re-photographed footage to tell the story of the survivors of a plane crash after it was swept into the sea during a storm.

The way in which Janie Geiser rephotographed the clips make them almost unrecognizable, and she does not cite the source material at any point during the film for both legal and aesthetic reasons.

Janie Geiser is playing with the moment of suspense, when imagined death has arrived.

At Automata, Janie Geiser has teamed up with Erik Ehn, Trudi Cohen, Alma Sheppard-Matsuo, Severin Behnen, Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, John Eckert and others.