Circumstantial Pleasures (S)

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 says: «Circumstantial Pleasures instead employs contemporary sources - the disposable paper and plastic detritus (receipts, foils, envelope interiors, product wrappings) that is omnipresent yet so overlooked as to be nearly invisible - to depict an everyday ecology of the present tense. A soundtrack of three ‘80s pop songs structures and guides the unfolding. That all three songs are from the 1980’s suggests not so much backward looking as the reality that the imagery to depict their world view wasn’t avail-able till the present moment.»