Ernie Gehr Movies
- 1970
Serene Velocity
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Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...
- 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...
- 2006
Before the Olympics
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“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
- 1992
Side/Walk/Shuttle
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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...
- 2013
Photographic Phantoms
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In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...
- 2010
Thank You for Visiting
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Images of a city, superimposed.
- 1969
Reverberation
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Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.
- 2007
Water Spell
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"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,...
- 2004
The Astronomer's Dream
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"Replete with visual and audiovisual humor, these works not only celebrate the pleasures of perception, as well as physical spaces and spaces of the...
- 2009
Hurry Up Henrietta
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Film by Ernie Gehr
- 2016
For the Birds
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Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series
- 1970
Field
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Abstract short film.
- 2004
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
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16mm film (black and white, silent)
- 1974
Eureka
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Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...
- 2004
Greene Street
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"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...
- 2012
Work in Progress
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In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...
- 2013
The Quiet Car
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Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.
- 1968
Huge Pupils
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In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...
- 2001
Glider
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Cool, delirious, and mysterious. Futuristic, yet ancient. A voyage into a pictorial space-world that seems to be governed by extraterrestrial optical...
- 1968
Wait
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A couple waiting in a room.