Altair (1994)

Genre : Romance, Animation, Drama

Runtime : 8M

Director : Lewis Klahr

Synopsis

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.

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Lewis Klahr
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