Lewis Klahr Movies

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

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

Inspired by Tom Gunning poem and William Castle's 1947 'When Strangers Marry'

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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...

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

Children in a garden of outsize fruit dream of food and love, then grow up to have unhappy office affairs in the glamorous Manhattan of the late...

“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...

Klahr describes it as “a psychedelic melodrama” offering “my most linear story line yet.” It’s constructed from cutouts...

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

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