Laura Margulies

In ancient Hawai‘i, an arrogant demigod, Kamapuaʻa, pursues the fiery volcano goddess, Pele, who tires of his playboy exploits and calls upon her sister"s female power for aid. She lures him to O‘ahu, and in an explosive frenzy, traps him in the crater known from then on as Kohelepele.

Hepa! ' translates the haunting rhythm of Afro-Brazilian percussion into images, combining live performance images and hand-painted animations. The film explores Afro-Brazilian dance through these colorful animations, made from paintings on glass filmed frame by frame.

SINCE OUR STATUS CHANGED ... chronicles a breakup. The film mixes animated oil painting with shot footage. Charles Frayne Prize Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Animated Feature, 1993.

Mixing Animation and Live action footage, “Rolling Down Like Pele” explores the world of traditional Hula and Chant. Lush oil paintings, water colors and pencil drawings illuminate sections of three Hawaiian dances in unique and surprising ways.

Combining painted, drawn, and fluid imagery with shot footage, ROSE MARRIED A JUNKY is an odyssey through a woman's thoughts about herself, intellectual flirtatious people, desperate eyed people, and the story of romantic love imagined by his grandmother. Winner of the Charles Samu Prize, 1992.

A dance film shot inside the medieval walls of the Cloisters in Manhattan. It shows a young woman who becomes aware of the cosmic forces, forces which inhabit her.