Lewis Klahr Filmes

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

The dead body remembers. The Tibetan book of the dead meets film noir. An elliptical narrative of adultery and corporate espionage set to a score by...

"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...

Organized in 12 discrete chapters, Sixty Six is a milestone achievement, the culmination of Klahr’s decades-long work in collage filmmaking....

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

"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...

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