Crawley
A boy is afflicted by obsessive-compulsive disorder in a serious way. Dark and hauntingly funny, Crawley was co-directed by Lisa Hammer and Ben Edlund (The Tick).
Casts & Crew
Doc Hammer
April Styph
Also Directed by Lisa Hammer
The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch' is a dark comedy about a lonely small time hit man.
Two religious maniacs, Judas (played by Terrence Fleming) and Corned Beef (played by Eric Hammer), are visited by two aliens, Madeline Virbasius and Dion. Virbasius, dressed as the Virgin Mary, tells the two to kill people for Jesus and to drain the puss from their heads and bring it back to them. Fleming and Hammer set out to bring "the Virgin Mary" back as much puss back as possible in a bucket (hence the title)
Short by Lisa Hammer
A brief statement on inner and outer beauty...
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
Lovers from opposite worlds are forbidden to be together.
Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer aired on New York's Public Access from 1996-1999, presenting original drama and comedy in a German Expressionist style, utilizing New York underground personalities including Jennifer Nixon (aka Queen Itchie), Peter Moran, Bliss Blood, Banjo Pete, Miller Duvall, Secretary Jenny, Cynthia Mitchell, Patrick O'Clock (aka Patrick Hambrecht), Jasper McVain, Daisy Miller, Li'l Sweetie, and Countessa Cinorre, as well as celebrity guest stars Thurston Moore, Courtney Love and Tiny Tim.
An Ophelia-style self portrait of the director.
Pox was meant to be the Anti-Christ, but his star is waning and his talk show's ratings are way down. After his producer and mentor tries to replace him, Pox embarks on a journey to a day spa - his only comfort. Can his invisible alien manager and an inept doomsday cult help him take his rightful place as ruler of the universe?
A surreal and merry jaunt inside the world of three eccentric sisters: Dada poetess Celestia, manic inventor Ladybug, and dreamy painter Whimsellica. The sisters live in NYC with their darling butler, Reginald, and two scheming maids.