The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

Los Angeles–based filmmaker Lewis Klahr explained, “My latest feature-length series of collage films, 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.” Klahr creates intricate worlds of fantasy and intrigue by culling two-dimensional ephemera—often cutouts from magazines and comic books, as well as objects such as playing cards—and using them as the basis for his short films, most of which are works of stop-camera animation.