Lewis Klahr Movies

  • 2021
    Aunt Avis

    Aunt Avis

    Aunt Avis

    02021HD

    Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

    Aunt Avis
  • 1970
    Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon

    Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon

    Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon

    01970HD

    A personal love story of the artist’s life in New York City

    Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon
  • 1984
    Candy's 16!

    Candy's 16!

    Candy's 16!

    01984HD

    "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...

    Candy's 16!
  • 2014
    Saturn's Diary

    Saturn's Diary

    Saturn's Diary

    02014HD

    "Saturn's Diary is just that-- a diary of the God's mundane, earthly existence, including his busy romantic life, during the first 4 months of 1966....

    Saturn's Diary
  • 2013
    Ichor

    Ichor

    Ichor

    02013HD

    "Ichor is the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods. Ichor is the first episode of Sixty Six, a projected 12 film collage series that...

    Ichor
  • 2009
    Wednesday Morning Two A.M.

    Wednesday Morning Two A.M.

    Wednesday Morning Two A.M.

    62009HD

    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...

    Wednesday Morning Two A.M.
  • 2004
    Two Days to Zero

    Two Days to Zero

    Two Days to Zero

    02004HD

    Part of a feature length narrative compressed 3 differnt times into 3 separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized (The...

    Two Days to Zero
  • 1993
    The Pharaoh's Belt

    The Pharaoh's Belt

    The Pharaoh's Belt

    01993HD

    "Seemingly in a hyperglycemic fugue state, a boy goes on a domestic Odyssey as his living room becomes an interstellar macrocosm that contains all...

    The Pharaoh's Belt
  • 2001
    Catherine Street

    Catherine Street

    Catherine Street

    02001HD

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

    Catherine Street
  • 2022
    Five Days Till Tomorrow

    Five Days Till Tomorrow

    Five Days Till Tomorrow

    02022HD

    Begun in 2015 and completed in 2022, Five Days Till Tomorrow evokes a timeless oneiric twilight, depicting a menagerie of fantasy comic book...

    Five Days Till Tomorrow
  • 2012
    Lip Print (Venus)

    Lip Print (Venus)

    Lip Print (Venus)

    02012HD

    Short film by Lewis Klahr.

    Lip Print (Venus)
  • 1996
    Lulu

    Lulu

    Lulu

    51996HD

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

    Lulu
  • 1997
    Calendar the Siamese

    Calendar the Siamese

    Calendar the Siamese

    01997HD

    Calendar the Siamese is the story of Roger Simmons, a downtown musician in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Roger believes that if he just had a year...

    Calendar the Siamese
  • 1997
    Pony Glass

    Pony Glass

    Pony Glass

    4.31997HD

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

    Pony Glass
  • 2010
    Sugar Slim Says

    Sugar Slim Says

    Sugar Slim Says

    02010HD

    Same address, different buildings. “Put the rope in the can.” Mark Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) and I became friends because...

    Sugar Slim Says
  • 2017
    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    02017HD

    Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal. Dick’s lyrics...

    Black River Falls
  • 1990
    Cartoon Far

    Cartoon Far

    Cartoon Far

    01990HD

    A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

    Cartoon Far
  • 2014
    Mars Garden

    Mars Garden

    Mars Garden

    02014HD

    Muscular, patriarchal images of comic book superheroes from yesteryear are illuminated on a light box and juxtaposed with tactile skill.

    Mars Garden
  • 2009
    Lethe

    Lethe

    Lethe

    02009HD

    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...

    Lethe
  • 2022
    The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

    The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

    The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

    62022HD

    Swollen Kisses (2019), Capitulations Promise (2020), Blue Sun (2020), Alcestis (2021), The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2020), Monogram (2019)

    The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness