Lewis Klahr Movies

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

created to Royal Auditiorium's S.B.S. I made this a few years back but never felt satisfied by my first version which included edits to 3 different...

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

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

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

An associative montage with color flicker accents that riffs off the mythology of hedonistic musicians and seedy Hollywood hotels. The song is by my...

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

Music by Lorenzo Wolff

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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...

“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...

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

"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...

"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....