Most Popular Lewis Klahr Trailers
Total trailers found: 93
The Genius Trailer (1993)
02 April 1993
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts.
A Thousand Julys Trailer (2010)
03 February 2010
This is a film that explores the two sided-ness of the comic book page. Although I’d been wanting to make this film for many years, I couldn’t resolve the technical challenges with 16mm.
Rain Couplets Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
“Kiss the Rain and The Street of Everlasting Rain are part of The Rain Couplets, a new subset of my ongoing Prolix Satori project.
Sixty Six Trailer (2015)
07 December 2015
Organized in 12 discrete chapters, Sixty Six is a milestone achievement, the culmination of Klahr’s decades-long work in collage filmmaking.
Thin Rain Trailer (2023)
11 November 2023
An amnesiac noir and city symphony, Klahr’s first black and white film in almost a decade, contemplates inner and outer voids; an opaque consciousness and the decaying civilization it finds itself within.
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness Trailer (2022)
15 October 2022
Swollen Kisses (2019), Capitulations Promise (2020), Blue Sun (2020), Alcestis (2021), The Blue Rose)
The Moon Has Its Reasons Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
A melodrama with an elliptical, poetic narrative that suggests infidelity in a love relationship.
1966 Trailer (1984)
01 June 1984
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
False Aging Trailer (2009)
21 January 2009
“False Aging expresses a sense of lost time, of not moving in step with the rest of the world. In one sequence Jefferson Airplane's Lather asks the question, ‘Is it true I'm no longer young?’ Time makes us prisoners locked in ourselves, like the a small yellow bird who slips behind the back of a playing card, then comes back out in front of it.
Open Eye Sleep Trailer (2012)
01 June 2012
Music Tom Recchion Cast: Henry Stram, Kate Valk, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Zippi, Kevin O’Brien
Circumstantial Pleasures Trailer (2020)
20 February 2020
A striking elaboration on a signature style, with “story” all but evacuated, Circumstantial Pleasure’s six episodes proceed less like an album of potent recollections and more like a stream of agitated consciousness.
The Pharaoh's Belt Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
"Seemingly in a hyperglycemic fugue state, a boy goes on a domestic Odyssey as his living room becomes an interstellar macrocosm that contains all the dangers and wonders of the mid-century popular imagination.
Altair Trailer (1994)
01 December 1994
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 claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.
City Film Trailer (1993)
02 February 1993
Klahr's City Film contemplates New York City rhythms, creating a tapestry of real and imagined street activities.
Antigenic Drift Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
Lewis' first digital film from 2007, a precursor for his feature-length series Circumstantial Pleasus
Deep Fishtank Too Trailer (1985)
01 June 1985
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
Album Trailer (2012)
16 September 2012
“Bar mitzvahs. Military training. Rock n' roll. First person, third person. Family photos kept, family photos discarded.
Daylight Moon Trailer (2002)
13 October 2002
"Lewis Klahr's collage films have always mimed the processes of memory by pulling together the discards of contemporary life (images from ads, text books, or comic books, objects such as game pieces, menus, playing cards) into scenarios that seem like some Hollywood film dimly remembered.
Elsa Kirk Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Created from contact sheets found in a thrift store in the East Village, Elsa Kirk consists of Xerox enlargements as backgrounds for a series of flat collages.
April Snow Trailer (2010)
05 December 2010
April Snow is a couplet juxtaposing two pop songs by The Shangri-Las and Bruce Springsteen
The Street of Everlasting Rain Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
Rain themed Klahr film, more upbeat then KISS THE RAIN.
Pulls Trailer (1985)
01 June 1985
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
Green '62 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
A portal to an older New York, conjured from a curved glass restaurant window on the Bowery.
Erigone's Daughter Trailer (2014)
19 October 2014
This cut-out animated collage picks out the detail to artfully expose the types and tropes of Hollywood crime thrillers with a dadaesque dynamic.
Well Then There Now Trailer (2011)
20 November 2011
An unfaithful interpretation of John Zorn’s early 80’s film script, “A Treatment For A Film in 15 Scenes”.
Two Hours to Zero Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
A crime story told two different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to (and immediately following) a bank robbery.
Lethe Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
In Greek mythology Lethe is the underworld river from which the dead drink to forget their life on earth.
Saturn's Diary Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
"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.
Candy's 16! Trailer (1984)
01 June 1984
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
A Failed Cardigan Maneuver Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
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 1950s.
Marietta's Lied Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
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 from 1935 to render in mythic shorthand the tragic story .
Enchantment Trailer (1983)
01 June 1983
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
The Pettifogger Trailer (2011)
09 October 2011
A year in the life of an American gambler and con man circa 1963. A diaristic montage full of glimpses, glances, decaying ephemera and elliptical narrative.
Mars Garden Trailer (2014)
17 October 2014
Muscular, patriarchal images of comic book superheroes from yesteryear are illuminated on a light box and juxtaposed with tactile skill.
Nimbus Seeds Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Nimbus Smile is followed by Nimbus Seeds, which sets a collage soundtrack of city noises, wind chimes, rain, footsteps, and bits of classical music to the exact same visuals.
Hard Green Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
An tactile exploration of World War 2 comic books through the abstraction afforded by a magnifying glass.
Helen of T Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
"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 Greek Mythology and Mid 60's Daylight Noir.
The River Sieve Trailer (1985)
01 June 1985
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
Sugar Slim Says Trailer (2010)
15 January 2010
Same address, different buildings. “Put the rope in the can.” Mark Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) and I became friends because our sons were classmates.
Govinda Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
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 innocence to experience; idealism to disillusion to attempted re-integration.
Deep Fishtank Birding Trailer (1983)
01 June 1983
"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia.
Dead Celebrity Trailer (2019)
27 March 2019
An associative montage with color flicker accents that riffs off the mythology of hedonistic musicians and seedy Hollywood hotels.
Her Fragrant Emulsion Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
“Her Fragrant Emulsion is an obsessional homage to the ’60s B-film actress Mimsy Farmer. The film’s visceral collage images act as a metaphor for sensuality and move in and out of sync with the soundtrack to evoke the distancing and intimacy cycles that are common in love relationships.
Catherine Street Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Crafted from contact sheets found in the 1990s at a thrift store in the East Village.
