Ernie Gehr Movies
- 1970
Serene Velocity
Serene Velocity4.51970HD
"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared...
- 1992
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Side/Walk/Shuttle6.51992HD
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...
- 1968
Wait
Wait4.91968HD
"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to...
- 1974
Eureka
Eureka5.71974HD
"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place...
- 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...
- 2024
South Station
South Station02024HD
South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.
- 2024
By Rail, To Boston
By Rail, To Boston02024HD
By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
- 1976
Table
Table6.21976HD
"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and...
- 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...
- 1971
Still
Still3.51971HD
"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth. The superimpositions seem to lie on top of...
- 2024
Creatures of the Night
Creatures of the Night02024HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
- 2024
Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens02024HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.
- 2007
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
Cinematic Fertilizer – 13.52007HD
Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...
- 2007
Water Spell
Water Spell72007HD
"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...
- 2011
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace102011HD
An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
- 1970
History
History71970HD
"Film in its primordial state in which patterns of light and darkness are still undivided. Like the natural order of the universe, an unbroken flow...
- 2023
What’s Up!
What’s Up!02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
- 2023
High-Wire Act
High-Wire Act02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.
- 2023
Medicine Cabinet
Medicine Cabinet02023HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
- 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...