Jon Mirsalis

Movies

The Secret of the Marquise
Original Music Composer
Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.
The Birth of a Nation
Original Music Composer
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.