LARRY FESSENDEN’S GLASS EYE PIX
LAUNCHES VIDEO LABEL in partnership with OCN
 TO CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT GENRE CINEMA

2 June 2025 // New York, New York — In anticipation of its 40th anniversary celebration that begins November 2nd of this year, Glass Eye Pix is launching a video label in conjunction with OCN to release newly restored versions of the films that built its brand. The company that produced seminal work by game-changing names like Ti West, Kelly Reichardt, Jim Mickle, Rick Alverson, Graham Reznick, Glenn McQuaid, Mickey Keating, Joe Maggio, and Ilya Chaiken will be releasing a roster of early foundational work brimming with style, scares, and skill in lavishly produced Blu-ray editions.

Glass Eye Pix (“one of the indie scene’s most productive and longest-running companies” —Filmmaker Magazine) is the fierce independent NYC-based production outfit headed by art-horror auteur Larry Fessenden (BLACKOUT, DEPRAVED, BENEATH, ABC’s of DEATH 2, NBC’s Fear Itself episode “SKIN AND BONES,” THE LAST WINTER, WENDIGO, HABIT, NO TELLING). Glass Eye Pix is responsible for narrative films, documentaries, books, comics, audio plays, and other unique work designed to inspire and contrast with corporate media. Fessenden (winner of the Someone to Watch Spirit Award) has operated the company since 1985, with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts.

The Glass Eye Pix label launches in partnership with OCN distribution. Justin LaLiberty, head of OCN says: “I’ve admired the work that Larry Fessenden has done over the years, not just in his own work but in that of shaping an outstanding production company in Glass Eye Pix, one of the last bastions of truly independent genre filmmaking in the United States. I’m elated to partner with Larry to create the best home video releases possible for the films Glass Eye has produced, past and present, which will be distributed through OCN Distribution.”

Says Fessenden, “I love physical media as a way to present a movie with its graphic identity, extra features and ruminations by artisans and commentators, capturing the elusive resonance of an individual picture in one package. I hope fans of Glass Eye will enjoy the embarrassment of riches we have in store for them in the coming months.”

The Glass Eye Pix label begins its launch with the highly-anticipated Blu-ray release of James Felix McKenney’s AUTOMATONS (2006 / 83 min / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / starring Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Brenda Cooney, Jennifer Boutell, and Larry Fessenden).  Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that the girl continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers… https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage-partner-labels/products/automatons
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First up in this lineup is a new edition of James Felix McKenney’s futuristic sci-fi thriller AUTOMATONS, starring Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm and Brenda Cooney. The region-free Blu-ray will supplement the feature (newly remastered in 2K) with these bonus features.