Lewis Klahr is one of the most original and prolific film artists of his generation. (He is) intensively archeological in his approach to autobiography and cultural ephemera. J. Hoberman has called Klahr "the reigning proponent of cut and paste," one reason the casual viewer might find surface resemblance to the work of experimental animators like Harry Smith, Vanderbeek, and Lawrence Jordan. But Klahr more appropriately belongs to the lineage of filmmakers like Anger, Harrington, Kuchar, Warhol, and Cornell who also had a profound understanding and affinity with classical Hollywood....And like Jacques Tourneur, Klahr is a creator of atmospheres, not mere evocations of mood and setting but ontological terrains where event and emotion register with archetypical power and dreamlike intensity. -Mark McElhatten, Film Society of Lincoln Center Lewis Klahr is teaching at San Francisco Art Institute and Cal Arts this fall.