Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2017
Street Scenes
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Animation created from early paper films.
- 2010
Surveillance
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A four-channel video work taking inspiration from a lush park environment and the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life.
- 2002
Cotton Candy
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Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...
- 2009
Hurry Up Henrietta
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Film by Ernie Gehr
- 2012
Departure
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From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...
- 2020
Flying Over Brooklyn
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This short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...
- 2021
Back in the Park
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“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...
- 1976
Table
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Short experimental film featuring a kitchen table shot from various angles through colour filters.
- 2013
As If
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A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.
- 2015
Carnival of Shadows
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Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre...
- 2018
Construction Sight
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Ernie working his magic.
- 1981
Mirage
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Gehr replaces the camera lens with a half-spherical piece of plastic and filmed around his apartment, producing bands of color and light.
- 2003
Passage
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Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught...
- 2007
Shadow
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A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
- 2013
Winter Morning
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Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....
- 2017
Autumn
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The ever changing Lower East Side.
- 1968
Morning
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Lyrical debut film of avant-garde/structuralist filmmaker Ernie Gehr. Morning light streams through a window in Gehr's apartment. As Gehr changes the...
- 2013
Brooklyn Series
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A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.
- 2013
The Quiet Car
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Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.
- 2010
Chambers of Time
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2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.