Lewis Klahr Movies

"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 short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Lewis Klahr has started a new series of short animation films under the title of 'Couplets'. The project is intended to eventually result in a...

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.

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Same address, different buildings. “Put the rope in the can.” Mark Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) and I became friends because...

Per Mark McElhatten, it "unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and...

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.

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

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...