Ernie Gehr Movies

  • 1970
    Serene Velocity

    Serene Velocity

    Serene Velocity

    4.51970HD

    "Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared...

    Serene Velocity
  • 1992
    Side/Walk/Shuttle

    Side/Walk/Shuttle

    Side/Walk/Shuttle

    6.51992HD

    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...

    Side/Walk/Shuttle
  • 1968
    Wait

    Wait

    Wait

    4.91968HD

    "Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to...

    Wait
  • 1974
    Eureka

    Eureka

    Eureka

    5.71974HD

    "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...

    Eureka
  • 2010
    Mist

    Mist

    Mist

    6.52010HD

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

    Mist
  • 2024
    South Station

    South Station

    South Station

    02024HD

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

    South Station
  • 2024
    By Rail, To Boston

    By Rail, To Boston

    By Rail, To Boston

    02024HD

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

    By Rail, To Boston
  • 1976
    Table

    Table

    Table

    6.21976HD

    "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...

    Table
  • 2003
    Carte de Visite

    Carte de Visite

    Carte de Visite

    72003HD

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

    Carte de Visite
  • 1971
    Still

    Still

    Still

    3.51971HD

    "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...

    Still
  • 2024
    Carroll Gardens

    Carroll Gardens

    Carroll Gardens

    02024HD

    2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.

    Carroll Gardens
  • 2024
    Creatures of the Night

    Creatures of the Night

    Creatures of the Night

    02024HD

    This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

    Creatures of the Night
  • 2007
    Cinematic Fertilizer – 1

    Cinematic Fertilizer – 1

    Cinematic Fertilizer – 1

    3.52007HD

    Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...

    Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
  • 2007
    Water Spell

    Water Spell

    Water Spell

    72007HD

    "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,...

    Water Spell
  • 2011
    Crystal Palace

    Crystal Palace

    Crystal Palace

    102011HD

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

    Crystal Palace
  • 1970
    History

    History

    History

    71970HD

    "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...

    History
  • 2023
    What’s Up!

    What’s Up!

    What’s Up!

    02023HD

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

    What’s Up!
  • 2023
    High-Wire Act

    High-Wire Act

    High-Wire Act

    02023HD

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

    High-Wire Act
  • 2023
    Medicine Cabinet

    Medicine Cabinet

    Medicine Cabinet

    02023HD

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

    Medicine Cabinet
  • 2023
    Pedestrian Activities

    Pedestrian Activities

    Pedestrian Activities

    02023HD

    "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...

    Pedestrian Activities