Lewis Klahr Movies

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

An unfaithful interpretation of John Zorn’s early 80’s film script, “A Treatment For A Film in 15 Scenes”. I consider...

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

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

Inspired by Tom Gunning poem and William Castle's 1947 'When Strangers Marry'

"Lewis Klahr's collage films have always mimed the processes of memory by pulling together the discards of contemporary life (images from ads, text...

A three act (a song an act) melodrama about the coming of age of the American counterculture in the 60's and 70's as a generation moves from...

Marietta' Lied is an animation set to Korngold's exquisite song from his opera Die Tode Stadt. The piece uses cutouts of German cabaret performers...

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

Nimbus Smile is followed by Nimbus Seeds, which sets a collage soundtrack of city noises, wind chimes, rain, footsteps, and bits of classical music...

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

Rain themed Klahr film.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

This cut-out animated collage picks out the detail to artfully expose the types and tropes of Hollywood crime thrillers with a dadaesque dynamic.

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

"My most comprehensive working through of who this Deep Sea Diver figure is that has periodically haunted my collage animations from the first one I...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

“Bar mitzvahs. Military training. Rock n' roll. First person, third person. Family photos kept, family photos discarded. A collage of male...

"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia. In both experiences there is an overwhelming...