Ernie Gehr Movies
- 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...
- 2017
Street Scenes
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Animation created from early paper films.
- 2020
Through the Hoops of Time
Through the Hoops of Time02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
- 2003
Passage
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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...
- 2007
Shadow
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A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
- 2021
Back in the Park
Back in the Park02021HD
“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...
- 1974
Shift
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“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all...
- 2015
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage02015HD
Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.
- 2020
Mirror of Dreams
Mirror of Dreams02020HD
“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...
- 2015
Carnival of Shadows
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Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre...
- 2004
Precarious Garden
Precarious Garden02004HD
A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.
- 1968
Morning
Morning01968HD
Lyrical debut film of avant-garde/structuralist filmmaker Ernie Gehr. Morning light streams through a window in Gehr's apartment. As Gehr changes the...
- 2016
Sensations of Light, #7
Sensations of Light, #702016HD
Humor without a banana peel.
- 2014
Auto-Collider XX
Auto-Collider XX02014HD
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...
- 2018
Circling Essex Crossing
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"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...
- 2009
Waterfront Follies
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American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...
- 1985
Signal - Germany on the Air
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The past is never delineated through Gehr‘s film, an unorthodox “city symphony” composed of largely static compositions of West...
- 2018
Aproposessexstreetmarket
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"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...
- 2011
Brewster, MA
Brewster, MA02011HD
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr
- 2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)02015HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.