David Lauer
Visual Effects
Known For

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
The Arrival

During the reign of King Zhou, an official enters his bedchamber, and is devoured by the monstrous tails of Daji, his concubine. Outside their city, several warriors within a metal wagon discuss their strategies to free the Invisible People and their Chief, when Jiang Ziya appears to them. He tells them that when King Zhou was younger, he let himself become possessed by the Black Dragon for his quest for power.
League of Gods

A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
Mad God

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in film.
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters

At a time when the moon could be reached by ladder, Captain Millipede, his daughter, a deaf milk miner, a beautiful accordionist, and a wannabe pole dancer make their final expedition unaware of what they had, blind to what they'd lose.
The Moon’s Milk

Tahani and Mykal-Michelle are snowed in with no lights or internet! Tahani takes us into the world of L.O.L. Surprise!, where everyone is preparing for the coolest party ever: The Winter Disco! When Midnight is the only B.B. not invited to perform at The Chalet, she embarks on a journey that will change the Winter Disco FOREVER!
L.O.L. Surprise! Winter Disco

Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree. With its innovative, intricate character design and intoxicatingly evocative, genuinely strange world, Oldboy’s Apples makes for tactile, ritualistic viewing – a rabbit hole of idolatry and the id.