Lewis Klahr (six films)
Lewis Klahr is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic films, which use found images and sound to explore the intersection of memory and history. Klahr’s films have been included in The Whitney Biennial 3 times and screened extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia.
"No mere exercise in nostalgia, Klahr’s film plays like a valiant attempt to reconcile the existential mysteries of the past with the enduring burdens of the human condition. As an act of preservation––whether of memories, materials, or both––Klahr’s career-long project exhibits a unique generosity; as an act of perseverance, it attains an even rarer vitality." ––Jordan Cronk, Cinemascope
“Klahr’s films and videos provide a rare opportunity for us to engage with a liminal state of consciousness with our alert mind and to reach those “infrathin” moments that Proust describes as existing outside of time.” —Chris Stults, Film Comment
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Alcestis
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2021 • 22 minutes
An interpretive adaptation of the Greek myth and the Euripides play that uses a melange of comic book characters as its cast. Klahr's most explicitly narrative collage film. From the series The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness.
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The Three Friends of the Cold Season
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2024 • 15 minutes
A three-act adventure epic that genre hops from swashbucklers to westerns to melodrama. Each act occurs in a different century and is set to a different iconic song from master American song book collagist Dick Connette.
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Turn It Back (Lewis Klahr)
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2012 • 3 minutes
A feature-length melodrama compressed into just under three minutes, in which a quintessential '60s blonde discovers who she really desires.
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Well Then There Now
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2012 • 13 minutes
An unfaithful and playful interpretation of John Zorn's early 80s film script Treatment For a Film in 15 Scenes, which was written as a shot list.
