Ernie Gehr Movies

Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.

In this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and...

Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

A couple waiting in a room.

"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...

Film by Ernie Gehr

Humor without a banana peel.

Ernie working his magic.

By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.

For about sixty minutes, STILL peers through a New York City street level window, watching the storefronts and windows across the way. People come...

Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...

Experimental film made without a lens.

"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...

Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.

As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...

South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.