Lewis Klahr Movies

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

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr. Previously referred to as Untitled, now referred to as The Life of Naomi Lang.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative and poetic montage. Like a waking dream, what...

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...

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

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

Rain themed Klahr film, more upbeat then KISS THE RAIN.

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

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

"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 trilogy (Elsa Kirk, Catherine Street, Creased Robe Smile) centered on photographic contact sheets of three different women from the mid-Sixties....

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...

Same address, different buildings. “Put the rope in the can.” Mark Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) and I became friends because...

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

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

An unfaithful interpretation of John Zorn’s early 80’s film script, “A Treatment For A Film in 15 Scenes”. I consider...