Lew Klahr: From 45 To 33 -- Part 1: Fable by the Door

Five Days Til Tomorrow, by Lewis Klahr

Los Angeles Filmforum presents

Lew Klahr: From 45 To 33 -- Part 1: Fable by the Door

Sunday September 13, 2026, 1:00 pm
At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90057

World premiere! Lew Klahr in person!

NOTE THE EARLIER SHOW TIME

Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members

https://link.dice.fm/i0adb1182f96

This will be the world premiere of Fable by the Door (2026, 64m) the second completed feature of my umbrella series From 45 To 33. 

This 10-film collage work, like many other film series I’ve created since the early 1980’s, is a “media autobiography”. To clarify-- this is not a memoir, but rather a personalized repurposing of my diverse and voluminous source materials into a cinematic collage that explores “the pastness of the present”. Just like the first completed section of From 45 to 33-- Part 2-- The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2022, 63.5 min.)-- this new series is a cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative and poetic montage. Like a waking dream, what can be clearly described in words is less significant than what can be felt. — Lew Klahr

"Above all, Klahr's great subject is time, which certainly explains the exquisitely melancholy tone that pervades his work. He traffics in modes that are pitched just bevond the realm of reason. Somewhere between waking and sleeping, we can find that wavelength and achieve understanding-- only to have it slip away as we enter one state or the other." -- Chris Stults Film Curator, The Wexner Center

Lew Klahr is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and collage artist who uses found images and sound to explore the pastness of the present where the intersection of memory and history, both personal and cultural, occurs. He began creating his uniquely idiosyncratic films in 1977. These have screened extensively in the U.S., Europe and Asia.  Included 3 times in the Whitney Biennial and a Guggenheim Fellow, Lewis Klahr teaches in the Theater School of the California Institute of the Arts.

Screening:

Fable By the Door, by Lew Klahr

2026, color, sound, 64 min.

Consisting of the following: