Lewis Klahr Movies

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

April Snow is a couplet juxtaposing two pop songs by The Shangri-Las and Bruce Springsteen

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

“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...

"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...

"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...

Klahr's City Film contemplates New York City rhythms, creating a tapestry of real and imagined street activities.

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

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

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...

Lewis' first digital film from 2007, a precursor for his feature-length series Circumstantial Pleasures

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

“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...

The series begins with Nimbus Smile, which depicts a love triangle in 1960s New York set to the Velvet Underground's 'Pale Blue Eyes.'

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

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

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