Lewis Klahr Movies

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

An tactile exploration of World War 2 comic books through the abstraction afforded by a magnifying glass.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

A decade ago, Klahr and several Wooster Group all-stars improvised their way 'through a series of photo shoots trying to determine exactly what a...

This is a film that explores the two sided-ness of the comic book page. Although I’d been wanting to make this film for many years, I...

Per Mark McElhatten, it "unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and...

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.

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

Created from contact sheets found in a thrift store in the East Village, Elsa Kirk consists of Xerox enlargements as backgrounds for a series of flat...

"The scent of elliptical narrative lingers in the air, as vividly colored 60's comic book figures thread their way through iconic photograph settings...

Rain themed Klahr film, more upbeat then KISS THE RAIN.

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...

A portal to an older New York, conjured from a curved glass restaurant window on the Bowery.

An associative montage with color flicker accents that riffs off the mythology of hedonistic musicians and seedy Hollywood hotels. The song is by my...

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

An amnesiac noir and city symphony, Klahr’s first black and white film in almost a decade, contemplates inner and outer voids; an opaque...