Ernie Gehr Movies

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

South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.

"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,...

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

Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.

As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...

In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

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...

Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...

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...

Images of a city, superimposed.

Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...

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 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.

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

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

“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and...

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