Lewis Klahr Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

Music Tom Recchion Cast: Henry Stram, Kate Valk, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Zippi, Kevin O’Brien

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

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

A cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative and poetic montage. Like a waking dream, what...

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

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...

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Klahr describes it as “a psychedelic melodrama” offering “my most linear story line yet.” It’s constructed from cutouts...

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

Begun in 2015 and completed in 2022, Five Days Till Tomorrow evokes a timeless oneiric twilight, depicting a menagerie of fantasy comic book...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A trilogy (Elsa Kirk, Catherine Street, Creased Robe Smile) centered on photographic contact sheets of three different women from the mid-Sixties....