John Klacsmann

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

An anxious animation.

Created by Anthology’s Archivist John Klacsmann, the visual track of Elegy for J.M. is the result of an encoding malfunction while preparing a clip of Jonas Mekas’s Lost Lost Lost (1976), a happy digital accident in keeping with the spontaneity and openness to chance embodied by Jonas’s diary films themselves.

A Technicolor dye imbibition printing error mis-registers a 1967 B-Western, revealing its Cyan ghosts and cinema’s psychedelic underpinnings.