A still from Nimbus Seeds (2009)

Saturday, October 10, 8:00 pm

Rubicon Cinema at the Blue Sky Studio, 943 Dopler Street, Akron OH 44303 (map)

Admission: Free (suggested $10 donation)
BYO beverages and snacks

Rubicon Cinema is thrilled to welcome Los Angeles filmmaker Lewis Klahr for the opening of our 10th season!

Known for his mesmerizing collage films, Klahr transforms cutouts from mid-century magazines, comic books, catalogs, and photographs into dreamlike worlds of memory, desire, loss, and nostalgia. His films have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and festivals around the world, and are held in the collections of MoMA and Colección Inelcom.

Join us Friday, October 10 for a special screening of Klahr’s work, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker himself. Come experience these strange, beautiful fragments of American pop culture—and stay afterward to hear directly from the artist about his work and process.

Program:

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness, 2022, color, sound, 63:30 min

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness is a handmade collage melodrama built from animated cutouts of mid-century magazines, books, comics, and other printed ephemera. In Klahr's hands, these obsolete commercial images become vehicles for dreams of love, desire, memory, and loss.

"My feature length collage film The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness is a compilation of six films created between 2015 and 2021. Focused primarily around thematics of love, it is both porous and dense, a cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative. Like a waking dream, what can be clearly described in words is less significant than what can be felt."-- Lewis Klahr

Nimbus Smile, 2009, color, sound, 8 min

Nimbus Seeds, 2009, color, sound, 8 min

Cumulonimbus, 2010, color, sound, 9:17 min

“In this grouping of three related videos on the subject of romantic triangles, Klahr expands his explorations of memory, love, repetition, narrative, and loss in surprising new ways until the films build into complex emotional and artistic experiences. His approach to inter-film montage (the interconnected relationship of different films to each other) reaches its fullest expression with these works.” – Wexner Center for the Arts