Lewis Klahr Movies

An tactile exploration of World War 2 comic books through the abstraction afforded by a magnifying glass.

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

"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 melodrama with an elliptical, poetic narrative that suggests infidelity in a love relationship.

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

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

“Her Fragrant Emulsion is an obsessional homage to the ’60s B-film actress Mimsy Farmer. The film’s visceral collage images act as...

"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...

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

"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...

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

A decade ago, Klahr and several Wooster Group all-stars improvised their way 'through a series of photo shoots trying to determine exactly what a...

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

A crime story told two different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to (and immediately following) a bank robbery. The...

"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...

"A recent film." - Lewis Klahr

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