Lewis Klahr Movies

Crafted from contact sheets found in the 1990s at a thrift store in the East Village.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

“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...

Short film part of The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2022)

"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...

Children in a garden of outsize fruit dream of food and love, then grow up to have unhappy office affairs in the glamorous Manhattan of the late...

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

created to Royal Auditiorium's S.B.S. I made this a few years back but never felt satisfied by my first version which included edits to 3 different...

"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...

“Kiss the Rain and The Street of Everlasting Rain are part of The Rain Couplets, a new subset of my ongoing Prolix Satori project. Like my...

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

Lewis Klahr has started a new series of short animation films under the title of 'Couplets'. The project is intended to eventually result in a...

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

Music by Lorenzo Wolff

"Arguably the definitive portrait of the postwar America of secretly toxic dreams and treacherous surfaces," is how critic Michael Atkinson describes...

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

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...

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

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.