Lewis Klahr is an American experimental animator based in southern California. He specializes in cut-and-paste animation techniques using found photos and illustrations. His work is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
When not working on his own films, Klahr has created the animated openings for TV shows, music videos and commercials. He is also currently a film and screenwriting professor at the California Institute of the Arts.
The Pettifogger (2011)
April Snow (2010)
Nimbus Smile (2010)
Cumulonimbus (2010)
Sugar Slim Says (2010)
A Thousand Julys (2010)
False Aging (2009)
Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (2009)
Lethe (2009)
Nimbus Seeds (2009)
Hard Green (2004)
Soft Ticket (2004)
Two Days to Zero (2004)
Two Hours to Zero (2004)
Valise (2004)
Two Minutes to Zero (2003)
Daylight Moon (2002)
The Aperture of Ghostings (2002)
Engram Sepals (2000)
Govinda (1999)
Elsa Kirk (1999)
A Failed Cardigan Maneuver (1999)
Marietta’s Lied (1998)
Pony Glass (1997)
Calendar the Siamese (1997)
Green ’62 (1996)
Lulu (1996)
Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon (1996)
Altair (1994)
Downs Are Feminine (1994)
Pharaoh’s Belt (1993)
Elevator Music (1991)
Untitled (The Life of Naomi Lang (1991)
Untitled (Actuality) (1991)
Cartoon Far (1990)
The Organ Minder’s Gronkey (1990)
Station Drama (1990)
Hi-Fi Cadets (1989)
Verdant Sonar (1989)
Yesterday’s Glue (1989)
For the Rest of Your Natural Life (1988)
Lost Camel Intentions (1988)
In the Month of Crickets (1988)
Her Fragrant Emulsion (1987)
The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its 53rd edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental films by Ben Russell, Jennifer Reeder and loads more.
On November 18 at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, California, Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Fund presented a selection of experimental films that will be included on the upcoming DVD box set Treasures VI: Next Wave Avant-Garde.
Nov. 11: Experimental animator Lewis Klahr will screen a selection of his work from 2009 and 2010, including the award winning Wednesday Morning Two A.M. and the Nimbus Trilogy.
The 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival is screening films by Jodie Mack, Deborah Straman, Ben Rivers, Stephanie Barber, and a new film by James Benning, plus the doc Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.
The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival opens with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, and will screen Don Swaynos’s Pictures of Superheroes, Drew Tobias’s See You Next Tuesday and loads more cinematic oddities.
The 24th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival gave out awards to filmmakers Luther Price, Stephanie Barber, Pat O’Neill, plus gave out several honorable mentions.
The 24th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival is screening Lewis Klahr’s The Pettifogger, plus films by Jesse McLean, Clint Enns, Ken Jacobs and more.
The 2012 Brakhage Center Symposium has been programmed by curator Kathy Geritz and will examine the concept of experimental narrative over three days of screenings and lectures on March 16-18.
The Wexner Center for the Arts produced this short profile of collage animator Lewis Klahr, who discusses his work processes.
The 23rd annual Onion City festival will screen a new feature by James Fotopoulos, plus films by the Brothers Quay, Paul Clipson and more.