Ernie Gehr Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

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

"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...

"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,...

“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...

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

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

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

"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...

Ernie working his magic.

“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...

Animation created from early paper films.

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

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

"Serene Velocity" remade at USF Tampa in Cooper Hall

"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...

"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...