Screenplay: Lewis Klahr

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lewis Klahr. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Altair (S)

1995 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40's pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of...

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The Pharaoh's Belt

1993 · Movie · 43 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

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Daylight Moon (S)

2002 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot "There are many things I could say about Daylight Moon but very few I want to before someone views the film. But I will say this--of all the films I've...

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The Pettifogger

2011 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot The Pettifogger follows a year in the life of a minor con man whose life is falling apart in the early 1960s. It has a loose narrative, which illustrates the...

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Rain Couplets (S)

2012 · Movie · 14 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot “Kiss the Rain and The Street of Everlasting Rain are part of The Rain Couplets, a new subset of my ongoing Prolix Satori project. Like my other Couplets, they grapple...

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The Occidental Hotel

2014 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot I often save collected materials for long periods of time before finding a way to use them, more often than not, my collage films use images of mid 20th-century America....

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Well Then There Now (S)

2011 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot A list of 254 shots, divided over 15 scenes. The script is not so much intended as instructions for directing, but more as a musical composition: open to more than...

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A Thousand Julys (S)

2010 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot "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...

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Elsa Kirk (S)

1999 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

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Tales of the Forgotten Future

1991 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

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Circumstantial Pleasures (S)

2019 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot Circumstantial Pleasures is the title film of a planned feature length trilogy. The film is a departure and vacation from the artist’s signature use of found, mid-century images. As Klahr...

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Catherine Street (S)

2001 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

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Pony Glass (S)

1998 · Movie · 15 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot Jimmy Olsen has an affair with Lucy Lane that ends in heartbreak when she leaves him for another man. His saga of sexual confusion, depicted in animated cut-outs from the...

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Two Minutes to Zero (S)

2004 · Movie · 1 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

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Turn It Back (S)

2013 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

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Sixty Six

2015 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot «Sixty Six» is Lewis Klahr's masterpiece collage film that he was making for 13 years. Twelve cutout animations form a set of stories in which figures from Greek mythology and...

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The Moon Has Its Reasons (S)

2012 · Movie · 3 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Klahr

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

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April Snow (S)

2010 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Klahr

Plot April Snow is a couplet juxtaposing two pop songs by The Shangri-Las and Bruce Springsteen.

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