"Arguably the definitive portrait of the postwar America of secretly toxic dreams and treacherous surfaces," is how critic Michael Atkinson describes Tales of the Forgotten Future.

Klahr’s breakthrough series traces an alternate history of 20th-century America in a collection of 12 diverse shorts. From the nuclear paranoia of The Organ Minder's Gronkey to Hi-Fi Cadets, where JFK is employed as a janitor in a neighborhood high school, Klahr's lo-fi animation style astutely captures the anxieties, dreams, disappointments, and promises of our recent cultural history. (133 mins., video)

One of the most striking, perverse, and radical of Andy Warhol's narrative films, Vinyl is a druggy, fetishistic adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (made six years before Stanley Kubrick's version was released). In Warhol's trademark unblinking, minimalist style, his superstars Gerard Malanga, Ondine, and—in her first substantial screen appearance—Edie Sedgwick are crammed into the frame, where frugging to pop records and other more debased activities are as important—if not more so—than the lines they recite. (66 mins., 16mm)

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Studio Visit with Filmmaker Lewis Klahr from Wexner Center on Vimeo.