Lewis Klahr Movies

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...

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

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

"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...

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

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

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

In Greek mythology Lethe is the underworld river from which the dead drink to forget their life on earth. The first film in a possible trilogy of...

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

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