Lewis Klahr Movies

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

"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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A year in the life of an American gambler and con man circa 1963. A diaristic montage full of glimpses, glances, decaying ephemera and elliptical...

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

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

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

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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...

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...

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...

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

The trilogy’s closer, ‘Cumulonimbus,’ is a movingly mature account of grief with a puckish sting in its tail.

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr. Previously referred to as Untitled, now referred to as The Life of Naomi Lang.

The shorter of Lewis Klahr's two untitled films from 1991. Now referred to as "Actuality."