Lewis Klahr Movies

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...

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A crime story told two different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to (and immediately following) a bank robbery. The...

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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...

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

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

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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Swollen Kisses (2019), Capitulations Promise (2020), Blue Sun (2020), Alcestis (2021), The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2020), Monogram (2019)