Lewis Klahr Movies

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

"Lewis Klahr's collage films have always mimed the processes of memory by pulling together the discards of contemporary life (images from ads, text...

Music by Lorenzo Wolff

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

Rain themed Klahr film, more upbeat then KISS THE RAIN.

Muscular, patriarchal images of comic book superheroes from yesteryear are illuminated on a light box and juxtaposed with tactile skill.

Nimbus Smile is followed by Nimbus Seeds, which sets a collage soundtrack of city noises, wind chimes, rain, footsteps, and bits of classical music...

This cut-out animated collage picks out the detail to artfully expose the types and tropes of Hollywood crime thrillers with a dadaesque dynamic.

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

"Saturn's Diary is just that-- a diary of the God's mundane, earthly existence, including his busy romantic life, during the first 4 months of 1966....

This is a film that explores the two sided-ness of the comic book page. Although I’d been wanting to make this film for many years, I...

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

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

The shorter of Lewis Klahr's two untitled films from 1991

A personal love story of the artist’s life in New York City

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

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...