Ernie Gehr Movies

  • 2015
    Bon Voyage

    Bon Voyage

    Bon Voyage

    02015HD

    Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

    Bon Voyage
  • 2023
    High-Wire Act

    High-Wire Act

    High-Wire Act

    02023HD

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

    High-Wire Act
  • 2003
    Passage

    Passage

    Passage

    02003HD

    Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught...

    Passage
  • 2018
    Circling Essex Crossing

    Circling Essex Crossing

    Circling Essex Crossing

    02018HD

    "The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...

    Circling Essex Crossing
  • 2020
    Through the Hoops of Time

    Through the Hoops of Time

    Through the Hoops of Time

    02020HD

    2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

    Through the Hoops of Time
  • 2002
    City

    City

    City

    02002HD

    City is grounded in the familiar everyday world of the street. Yet, the ground often gives way plastically, opening up a dense and paradoxical field...

    City
  • 2013
    Winter Morning

    Winter Morning

    Winter Morning

    02013HD

    Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....

    Winter Morning
  • 2013
    The Quiet Car

    The Quiet Car

    The Quiet Car

    02013HD

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

    The Quiet Car
  • 2012
    Auto-Collider XV

    Auto-Collider XV

    Auto-Collider XV

    02012HD

    A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...

    Auto-Collider XV
  • 1981
    Mirage

    Mirage

    Mirage

    01981HD

    Gehr replaces the camera lens with a half-spherical piece of plastic and filmed around his apartment, producing bands of color and light.

    Mirage
  • 2021
    Floating Particles

    Floating Particles

    Floating Particles

    02021HD

    “It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...

    Floating Particles
  • 2018
    Aproposessexstreetmarket

    Aproposessexstreetmarket

    Aproposessexstreetmarket

    02018HD

    "The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of...

    Aproposessexstreetmarket
  • 2013
    Photographic Phantoms

    Photographic Phantoms

    Photographic Phantoms

    02013HD

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

    Photographic Phantoms
  • 1970
    Field

    Field

    Field

    01970HD

    Abstract short film.

    Field
  • 2013
    Auto-Collider XVIII

    Auto-Collider XVIII

    Auto-Collider XVIII

    02013HD

    A slice of life. An advanced exploration of motor- coordination. Taking to the streets for a new formulation of optical mechanics in a darker key and...

    Auto-Collider XVIII
  • 2004
    Precarious Garden

    Precarious Garden

    Precarious Garden

    02004HD

    A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

    Precarious Garden
  • 1968
    Morning

    Morning

    Morning

    01968HD

    Lyrical debut film of avant-garde/structuralist filmmaker Ernie Gehr. Morning light streams through a window in Gehr's apartment. As Gehr changes the...

    Morning
  • 1985
    Signal - Germany on the Air

    Signal - Germany on the Air

    Signal - Germany on the Air

    01985HD

    The past is never delineated through Gehr‘s film, an unorthodox “city symphony” composed of largely static compositions of West...

    Signal - Germany on the Air
  • 2010
    Chambers of Time

    Chambers of Time

    Chambers of Time

    02010HD

    2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

    Chambers of Time
  • 2014
    Auto-Collider XX

    Auto-Collider XX

    Auto-Collider XX

    02014HD

    The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...

    Auto-Collider XX