Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2018
Construction Sight
Construction Sight02018HD
Ernie working his magic.
![Construction Sight]()
- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows02005HD
Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...
![Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows]()
- 2024
Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens02024HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.
![Carroll Gardens]()
- 1991
Rear Window
Rear Window01991HD
"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...
![Rear Window]()
- 1997
For Daniel
For Daniel01997HD
"Before my son was born, friends would ask me "Will you make a baby movie, now?". "Of course not!", I would answer. Yet, right after Daniel was born...
![For Daniel]()
- 1969
Transparency
Transparency01969HD
"The footage for Transparency was recorded at variable camera speeds (from approx. 5 fps to around 40 fps). In this process, when later projected at...
![Transparency]()
- 1977
Untitled
Untitled01977HD
"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...
![Untitled]()
- 2009
Hurry Up Henrietta
Hurry Up Henrietta02009HD
Film by Ernie Gehr
![Hurry Up Henrietta]()
- 2007
Water Spell
Water Spell72007HD
"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,...
![Water Spell]()
- 2011
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace102011HD
An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
![Crystal Palace]()
- 1970
History
History71970HD
"Film in its primordial state in which patterns of light and darkness are still undivided. Like the natural order of the universe, an unbroken flow...
![History]()
- 2023
What’s Up!
What’s Up!02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
![What’s Up!]()
- 2006
Before the Olympics
Before the Olympics02006HD
“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
![Before the Olympics]()
- 2023
High-Wire Act
High-Wire Act02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.
![High-Wire Act]()
- 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...
![Pedestrian Activities]()
- 2017
Autumn
Autumn02017HD
The ever changing Lower East Side.
![Autumn]()
- 2003
Passage
Passage02003HD
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]()
- 2007
Shadow
Shadow02007HD
A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
![Shadow]()
- 2007
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
Cinematic Fertilizer – 13.52007HD
Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...
![Cinematic Fertilizer – 1]()
- 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...
![Back in the Park]()
