Lewis Klahr Movies

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

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

Music Tom Recchion Cast: Henry Stram, Kate Valk, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Zippi, Kevin O’Brien

"The scent of elliptical narrative lingers in the air, as vividly colored 60's comic book figures thread their way through iconic photograph settings...

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

"Saturn's Diary is just that-- a diary of the God's mundane, earthly existence, including his busy romantic life, during the first 4 months of 1966....

"Helen of T is my contemplation of aging. The third episode of Sixty Six, a projected 12 film collage series that is a mythopoetic splice of classic...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Nimbus Smile is followed by Nimbus Seeds, which sets a collage soundtrack of city noises, wind chimes, rain, footsteps, and bits of classical music...

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

This is a film that explores the two sided-ness of the comic book page. Although I’d been wanting to make this film for many years, I...

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

Short experimental 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.'

The shorter of Lewis Klahr's two untitled films from 1991

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

A portal to an older New York, conjured from a curved glass restaurant window on the Bowery.

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 decade ago, Klahr and several Wooster Group all-stars improvised their way 'through a series of photo shoots trying to determine exactly what a...

"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...