Lewis Klahr Filmes

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

Music by Lorenzo Wolff

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

Lewis Klahr has started a new series of short animation films under the title of 'Couplets'. The project is intended to eventually result in a...

Short film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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...

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

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

"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...

Marietta' Lied is an animation set to Korngold's exquisite song from his opera Die Tode Stadt. The piece uses cutouts of German cabaret performers...

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

Klahr's City Film contemplates New York City rhythms, creating a tapestry of real and imagined street activities.

The series begins with Nimbus Smile, which depicts a love triangle in 1960s New York set to the Velvet Underground's 'Pale Blue Eyes.'

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.