Klahr

It's hard to know where to start with experimental cinema, but this overview of the past 30 years shows what you're up against – in a good way – as daily screenings flit from the found-footage collages of animator Lewis Klahr to the Otolith Group's study of a Palestinian refugee camp.

This week's new film events 2011

Southeast Portland resident Klahr has a medical marijuana card, but he hasn't smoked since 2004, because Oregon Health & Science University, the state's only liver transplant center, won't provide organs for people with marijuana compounds in their blood, even if the patients are medical marijuana cardholders.

Russ Belville: Oregon hospitals denying life saving organ transplants to legal medical marijuana patients 2010

David Bordwell has a quick primer on Lewis Klahr, "one of the most gifted collage animators in the American avant-garde" whose "work deserves to be more widely known."

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/5. 2006

WICZEK: The story began when Klahr was adopted as an infant, something his dad Ben and mom, Marge, never told him.

CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001 2001

GARY KLAHR: I couldn't have had a better father, and truthfully, I am Gary Klahr, the glassman's son.

CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001 2001

Bass was handled by Harris Klahr, late of the Washington post-punkers

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Mr. Klahr held a firm line, Mr. Andruzzi stepped out front for some cowbell dance, and Mr. Jenner's guitar sounded even more vital than the bass, a little-acknowledged gift of this band.

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The next question is from Michael Klahr of Citibank.

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The other grain inspector killed was Darrek Klahr, 43, of Wetmore.

The Seattle Times 2011

As stirring as Mr. Jenner's signature scraped howls are, bass remains this band's anchor, and Mr. Klahr was convincing, especially as the band began to treat its performance more as a D.J. set than a concert, stringing songs together into woozy, long, thumping runs: Whoo!

NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2011