: The Morning Films, the first three episodes from Lewis Klahr's Tales of the Forgotten Future, represent at once the "morning" or beginning of his newest project, and a "mourning" for a childhood past-an attempt to recapture the full potential of that imaginative world, "the forgotten future." Klahr's stories, created through animating cut-outs from diverse sources and times, are linear in that they chronicle a journey, a life, a disturbing series of events; yet the pervasive feeling is one of elusiveness, puzzlement, of surrealistic transitions and transformations. They seem to chronicle the functioning of the unconscious as much as create a narrative. Like Freud's slips of the tongue, Klahr's slips of paper take us on trips of memory, to times we thought we had forgotten (or had no access to). Both "slips" can be revealing: Klahr's cut-outs, removed from their original contexts (often texts of official knowledge-encyclopedias, textbooks), are liberated from rational logic, and in a textual 180turn, explore the wonderful possibilities of dream logic. Lost Camel Intentions (10 mins), For the Rest of Your Natural Life (10 mins), In the Month of Crickets (15 mins) (1988, B&W, Super-8) Kathy Geritz