Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames

Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images. With an ever-inventive approach to color and symbol, Klahr distills the title character's moral predicament, along with a great many of German Expressionism’s characteristic motifs, in the span of a pop song.
6.7
Score
3 votes
Editorial context, craft details, and films that share its DNA.
1997