Ernie Gehr Movies

"Serene Velocity" remade at USF Tampa in Cooper Hall

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

Ernie working his magic.

“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...

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

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

The ever changing Lower East Side.

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

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

An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...

"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...

"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...

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious,...

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

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