Lewis Klahr Movies

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

"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...

Music by Lorenzo Wolff

"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...

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

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

"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 feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is...

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

created to Royal Auditiorium's S.B.S. I made this a few years back but never felt satisfied by my first version which included edits to 3 different...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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