Lewis Klahr Movies

A three act (a song an act) melodrama about the coming of age of the American counterculture in the 60's and 70's as a generation moves from...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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

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.

Children in a garden of outsize fruit dream of food and love, then grow up to have unhappy office affairs in the glamorous Manhattan of the late...

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

“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...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Music by Lorenzo Wolff

Rain themed Klahr film.

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...

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

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...

A feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is...

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

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.