Lewis Klahr Movies

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

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...

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

"My most comprehensive working through of who this Deep Sea Diver figure is that has periodically haunted my collage animations from the first one I...

"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...

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

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

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

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

“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...

“Kiss the Rain and The Street of Everlasting Rain are part of The Rain Couplets, a new subset of my ongoing Prolix Satori project. Like my...

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

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