Lewis Klahr Movie Trailers
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Hard Green Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
An tactile exploration of World War 2 comic books through the abstraction afforded by a magnifying glass.
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.
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.
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.
Pony Glass Trailer (1997)
09 October 1997
Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!
Tales of the Forgotten Future Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
"Arguably the definitive portrait of the postwar America of secretly toxic dreams and treacherous surfaces," is how critic Michael Atkinson describes Tales of the Forgotten Future.
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.
Lulu Trailer (1996)
01 October 1996
Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images.
Two Minutes to Zero Trailer (2004)
26 September 2004
A feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized.
Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
A personal love story of the artist’s life in New York City
Untitled Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
The shorter of Lewis Klahr's two untitled films from 1991. Now referred to as "Actuality."
Untitled Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A short animation film by Lewis Klahr. Previously referred to as Untitled, now referred to as The Life of Naomi Lang.
Five Days Till Tomorrow Trailer (2022)
01 July 2022
Begun in 2015 and completed in 2022, Five Days Till Tomorrow evokes a timeless oneiric twilight, depicting a menagerie of fantasy comic book characters as they sleep, loll, and patiently inhabit a landscape of 1970s futuristic architecture waiting for the extended night—described in the title—to come to its end.
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.
Monogram Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
Inspired by Tom Gunning poem and William Castle's 1947 'When Strangers Marry'
For the Rest of Your Natural Life Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.
Cumulonimbus Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
The trilogy’s closer, ‘Cumulonimbus,’ is a movingly mature account of grief with a puckish sting in its tail.
D.B.S. Trailer (2020)
31 August 2020
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 plays of the song.
Downs Are Feminine Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
Per Mark McElhatten, it "unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and hermaphroditic transformations.
The Speed of Turquoise Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Klahr describes it as “a psychedelic melodrama” offering “my most linear story line yet.” It’s constructed from cutouts of characters and spaces he photographed himself; the actors move in a jumpy manner to the accompaniment of their own dialogue.
Black River Falls Trailer (2017)
11 July 2017
Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal.
Engram Sepals Trailer (2000)
01 February 2000
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 Morton Feldman and shot in high contrast B&W.
Two Days to Zero Trailer (2004)
06 April 2004
Part of a feature length narrative compressed 3 differnt times into 3 separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized (The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy).
The Aperture of Ghostings Trailer (2002)
07 September 2002
A trilogy (Elsa Kirk, Catherine Street, Creased Robe Smile) centered on photographic contact sheets of three different women from the mid-Sixties.
Calendar the Siamese Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Calendar the Siamese is the story of Roger Simmons, a downtown musician in the throes of a mid-life crisis.