Lewis Klahr Movies

A striking elaboration on a signature style, with “story” all but evacuated, Circumstantial Pleasure’s six episodes proceed less...

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of...

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

Organized in 12 discrete chapters, Sixty Six is a milestone achievement, the culmination of Klahr’s decades-long work in collage filmmaking....

Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's...

“Her Fragrant Emulsion is an obsessional homage to the ’60s B-film actress Mimsy Farmer. The film’s visceral collage images act as...

Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

In Greek mythology Lethe is the underworld river from which the dead drink to forget their life on earth. The first film in a possible trilogy of...

A melodrama with an elliptical, poetic narrative that suggests infidelity in a love relationship.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

The shorter of Lewis Klahr's two untitled films from 1991

A feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is...

The dead body remembers. The Tibetan book of the dead meets film noir. An elliptical narrative of adultery and corporate espionage set to a score by...

Same formal approach as with the War Comics– but this time to Baseball Cards– with a completely different emotional result.

Rain themed Klahr film.

“False Aging expresses a sense of lost time, of not moving in step with the rest of the world. In one sequence Jefferson Airplane's Lather asks...

A crime story told two different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to (and immediately following) a bank robbery. The...

The series begins with Nimbus Smile, which depicts a love triangle in 1960s New York set to the Velvet Underground's 'Pale Blue Eyes.'

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.