Lewis Klahr Movies

Film by Lewis Klahr, music by Loose Cattle.

"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 dead body remembers. The Tibetan book of the dead meets film noir. An elliptical narrative of adultery and corporate espionage set to a score by...

"Ichor is the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods. Ichor is the first episode of Sixty Six, a projected 12 film collage series that...

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

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

The trilogy’s closer, ‘Cumulonimbus,’ is a movingly mature account of grief with a puckish sting in its tail.

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

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

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

Short film part of The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2022)

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

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

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...

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

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...

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

The shorter of Lewis Klahr's two untitled films from 1991. Now referred to as "Actuality."