Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2023
Pedestrian Activities
Pedestrian Activities02023HD
"I have a number of doctors that I have to see – getting older and it’s an issue all the time, and they are on the Upper East Side. I...
- 2021
Undertow
Undertow02021HD
“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...
- 2023
What’s Up!
What’s Up!02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
- 2015
Better than Ever
Better than Ever02015HD
Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.
- 2008
New York Lantern
New York Lantern02008HD
In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...
- 2015
Transport
Transport02015HD
The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.
- 1974
Shift
Shift01974HD
“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all...
- 2011
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace102011HD
An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
- 2019
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II02019HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
- 2004
Greene Street
Greene Street02004HD
"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...
- 2020
New York Central
New York Central02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.
- 2021
Floating Particles
Floating Particles02021HD
“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...
- 2018
Circling Essex Crossing
Circling Essex Crossing02018HD
"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...
- 2013
Photographic Phantoms
Photographic Phantoms02013HD
In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...
- 2002
Modern Navigation
Modern Navigation02002HD
"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious,...
- 2016
Sensations of Light, #7
Sensations of Light, #702016HD
Humor without a banana peel.
- 2014
Auto-Collider XX
Auto-Collider XX02014HD
The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...
- 2020
Mirror of Dreams
Mirror of Dreams02020HD
“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...
- 2007
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
Cinematic Fertilizer – 102007HD
Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...
- 2011
Brewster, MA
Brewster, MA02011HD
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr