Lewis Klahr Movies
- 2020
Circumstantial Pleasures
Circumstantial Pleasures4.72020HD
A striking elaboration on a signature style, with “story” all but evacuated, Circumstantial Pleasure’s six episodes proceed less...
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- 2013
Turn It Back
Turn It Back72013HD
A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.
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- 2012
The Moon Has Its Reasons
The Moon Has Its Reasons02012HD
A melodrama with an elliptical, poetic narrative that suggests infidelity in a love relationship.
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- 2011
Well Then There Now
Well Then There Now72011HD
An unfaithful interpretation of John Zorn’s early 80’s film script, “A Treatment For A Film in 15 Scenes”. I consider...
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- 2014
The Occidental Hotel
The Occidental Hotel02014HD
“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...
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- 1997
Pony Glass
Pony Glass4.31997HD
Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!
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- 2014
Mars Garden
Mars Garden02014HD
Muscular, patriarchal images of comic book superheroes from yesteryear are illuminated on a light box and juxtaposed with tactile skill.
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- 1993
The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
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- 2022
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness62022HD
Swollen Kisses (2019), Capitulations Promise (2020), Blue Sun (2020), Alcestis (2021), The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2020), Monogram (2019)
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- 2004
Two Minutes to Zero
Two Minutes to Zero52004HD
A feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is...
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- 2007
Antigenic Drift
Antigenic Drift02007HD
Lewis' first digital film from 2007, a precursor for his feature-length series Circumstantial Pleasures
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- 1996
Lulu
Lulu51996HD
Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's...
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- 2004
Two Hours to Zero
Two Hours to Zero52004HD
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...
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- 1994
Altair
Altair6.51994HD
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...
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- 2010
April Snow
April Snow02010HD
April Snow is a couplet juxtaposing two pop songs by The Shangri-Las and Bruce Springsteen
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- 2013
Helen of T
Helen of T02013HD
"Helen of T is my contemplation of aging. The third episode of Sixty Six, a projected 12 film collage series that is a mythopoetic splice of classic...
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- 1970
Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon
Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon01970HD
A personal love story of the artist’s life in New York City
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- 1990
Cartoon Far
Cartoon Far01990HD
A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.
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- 2002
Daylight Moon
Daylight Moon02002HD
"Lewis Klahr's collage films have always mimed the processes of memory by pulling together the discards of contemporary life (images from ads, text...
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- 1988
For the Rest of Your Natural Life
For the Rest of Your Natural Life01988HD
A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.
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