Blessed Elysium Motion Pictures

An Ophelia-style self portrait of the director.

Short by Lisa Hammer

A spoof on Jane Austen stories. Miss Crappleshire just can't get a break!

Illustrator Dame Darcy (Meat Cake) stars as Clara One-Arm, an overwrought young woman who's trapped in her room and tormented by a trio of puppets, a ghost from her past, and a crazed nurse brandishing a monstrous needle. All of this shot like some psychotic's vision of a 20's silent movie, complete with tinted stock, beautifully expressionistic sets, and an appropriately eerie soundtrack by Eric Hammer

A brief statement on inner and outer beauty...

Lovers from opposite worlds are forbidden to be together.

An experimental fairy tale film where a mother is in constant fear of losing her son to an evil gnome.

A screenplay adapted by Maude Swift from Les Chants de Maldoror de Isidore Ducasse, le Compte de Lautreamont. Stars cult filmmaker Lisa Hammer.