Lewis Klahr Movies

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

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...

“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...

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

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

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