Lewis Klahr Movies

  • 2020
    Circumstantial Pleasures

    Circumstantial Pleasures

    Circumstantial Pleasures

    4.72020HD

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

    Circumstantial Pleasures
  • 2009
    False Aging

    False Aging

    False Aging

    6.22009HD

    “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...

    False Aging
  • 1987
    Her Fragrant Emulsion

    Her Fragrant Emulsion

    Her Fragrant Emulsion

    01987HD

    “Her Fragrant Emulsion is an obsessional homage to the ’60s B-film actress Mimsy Farmer. The film’s visceral collage images act as...

    Her Fragrant Emulsion
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

    51993HD

    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

    The Genius
  • 2015
    Sixty Six

    Sixty Six

    Sixty Six

    5.72015HD

    Organized in 12 discrete chapters, Sixty Six is a milestone achievement, the culmination of Klahr’s decades-long work in collage filmmaking....

    Sixty Six
  • 1989
    Yesterdays Glue

    Yesterdays Glue

    Yesterdays Glue

    01989HD

    A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

    Yesterdays Glue
  • 2004
    Two Minutes to Zero

    Two Minutes to Zero

    Two Minutes to Zero

    52004HD

    A feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is...

    Two Minutes to Zero
  • 2011
    The Pettifogger

    The Pettifogger

    The Pettifogger

    8.82011HD

    A year in the life of an American gambler and con man circa 1963. A diaristic montage full of glimpses, glances, decaying ephemera and elliptical...

    The Pettifogger
  • 1994
    Altair

    Altair

    Altair

    6.51994HD

    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...

    Altair
  • 2009
    Lethe

    Lethe

    Lethe

    02009HD

    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...

    Lethe
  • 1997
    Pony Glass

    Pony Glass

    Pony Glass

    4.31997HD

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

    Pony Glass
  • 2022
    Five Days Till Tomorrow

    Five Days Till Tomorrow

    Five Days Till Tomorrow

    02022HD

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

    Five Days Till Tomorrow
  • 2002
    Daylight Moon

    Daylight Moon

    Daylight Moon

    02002HD

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

    Daylight Moon
  • 2013
    Turn It Back

    Turn It Back

    Turn It Back

    72013HD

    A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

    Turn It Back
  • 2012
    Kiss the Rain

    Kiss the Rain

    Kiss the Rain

    02012HD

    Rain themed Klahr film.

    Kiss the Rain
  • 2009
    The Nimbus Trilogy

    The Nimbus Trilogy

    The Nimbus Trilogy

    02009HD

    Three romantic entanglements play out in the three 'Nimbus' videos, which extend Klahr's interest in constructing almost legible narratives —...

    The Nimbus Trilogy
  • 1999
    Elsa Kirk

    Elsa Kirk

    Elsa Kirk

    01999HD

    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...

    Elsa Kirk
  • 2012
    Album

    Album

    Album

    02012HD

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

    Album
  • 2011
    Well Then There Now

    Well Then There Now

    Well Then There Now

    72011HD

    An unfaithful interpretation of John Zorn’s early 80’s film script, “A Treatment For A Film in 15 Scenes”. I consider...

    Well Then There Now
  • 1990
    Station Drama

    Station Drama

    Station Drama

    01990HD

    A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

    Station Drama