Eric Thiermann
Directing
Known For

A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Caged Heat

A portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, and systems theorist. His story is lovingly told by his youngest daughter, Nora, with footage from Gregory's own films shot in the 1930s with his wife Margaret Mead in Bali and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews.
An Ecology of Mind
Multiple children are interviewed and asked about their thoughts on the threat of nuclear weapons.
In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
Action movie that played locally in Santa Cruz.
Steel Heel
Photographed in penal installations throughout California; depicts the activities, interviews, and artwork of inmates whose lives have been changed by art projects in prison. State officials, program directors, and prison administrations verify the statements made by inmates and prove that the experience of the punishment can also be an experience of the restoration of humanness
Art & The Prison Crisis
A concert pianist plays a fugue on a naked woman's body.
Fugue in D Minor
Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A crime story of a stolen car told out of narrative order, commenting on racist stereotypes of Black Americans.