Ernie Gehr Movies

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.

"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...

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...

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

“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...

A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.

The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.

An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…

Animation created from early paper films.

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,...

Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...

“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...