Tales of the Forgotten Future (1989)

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 Klahrs breakthrough series traces an alternate history of 20thcentury America in a collection of 12 diverse shorts From the nuclear paranoia of The Organ Minders Gronkey to HiFi Cadets where JFK is employed as a janitor in a neighborhood high school Klahrs lofi animation style astutely captures the anxieties dreams disappointments and promises of our recent cultural history wexartsorg