Ernie Gehr Filmes

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 stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

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

“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. 15 min.

"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth. The superimpositions seem to lie on top of...

“We are confronted with everyday images in a romantic way. If you are patient, you eventually see a deli sign that says ‘Carroll...

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...

"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,...

"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...

"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared...

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

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

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...

"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to...

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

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

"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a...

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

Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...