Lewis Klahr Movies

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

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...

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

"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 short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

Part of a feature length narrative compressed 3 differnt times into 3 separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized (The...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

"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...

April Snow is a couplet juxtaposing two pop songs by The Shangri-Las and Bruce Springsteen

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

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...

Directed by Lewis Klahr

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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