Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2010
Mist
Mist6.52010HD
Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...
- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows02005HD
Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...
- 1977
Untitled
Untitled01977HD
As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...
- 2006
Before the Olympics
Before the Olympics02006HD
“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
- 1968
Wait
Wait4.91968HD
A couple waiting in a room.
- 1981
Along Brighton Beach Avenue
Along Brighton Beach Avenue01981HD
The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of...
- 1970
Serene Velocity
Serene Velocity4.51970HD
Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...
- 2022
Lisbon Views
Lisbon Views02022HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
- 2003
Carte de Visite
Carte de Visite72003HD
Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...
- 2023
Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.
- 1970
History
History71970HD
Experimental film made without a lens.
- 2016
Sunday in Paris
Sunday in Paris02016HD
"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...
- 2020
Delirium
Delirium02020HD
"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard...
- 2004
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)02004HD
16mm film (black and white, silent)
- 2024
Creatures of the Night
Creatures of the Night02024HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
- 1974
Eureka
Eureka5.71974HD
Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...
- 2012
Auto-Collider XV
Auto-Collider XV02012HD
A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...
- 1971
Still
Still3.51971HD
For about sixty minutes, STILL peers through a New York City street level window, watching the storefronts and windows across the way. People come...
- 2012
Work in Progress
Work in Progress02012HD
In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...
- 2023
Medicine Cabinet
Medicine Cabinet02023HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.