Artist in Person Election Day Special-Discount with Voter Stub Like a modern-day Dickens, Lewis Klahr released his Tales of the Forgotten Future in installments over the last four years. Telling stories over a century post-Dickens, his concern is less with the story than the telling. While the thread connecting each piece isn't clearly narrative, Klahr's episodes do share a fascination for the function, the language, and the pleasure of narrative. His refusal of a unified, cohesive fictional world manifests itself also in his use of collage to construct his films. Images are collected from snapshots, picture books, encyclopedias, advertisements, and erotic cartoons (official and unofficial sources of childhood knowledge) and are animated into uneasy, unstable relationships. When logic fails, dream. He snips, tears, cuts apart one view of the world to create another; his handmade version of history is ambiguous, transgressive, transforming. For Klahr, and for this time at the end of the century, there is no "master" story, but rather a proliferation of ways of telling. And so his Tale is divided into four parts, each further divided into three tales in a compulsive, original attempt to unglue yesterday's stories, and imagine (or is it remember?) ones for the future. -Kathy Geritz