Ernie Gehr Movies

The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of...

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...

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his...

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

"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,...

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...

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

“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...

"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny. Having now spent several years...

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems...

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

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

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

"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background. After a few minutes, there...