Ernie Gehr Movies

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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

"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...

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

"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...

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

"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,...

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

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

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

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

"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...