Ernie Gehr Filmes

"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...

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

"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...

A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.

Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....

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...

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

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

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

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

"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...

"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...

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...

Cool, delirious, and mysterious. Futuristic, yet ancient. A voyage into a pictorial space-world that seems to be governed by extraterrestrial optical...

"The title is a reference to the force-field within the rectangle. To accentuate its character I filmed with B&W filmstock." – Ernie Gehr

“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...

"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...

"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny. Having now spent several years...

"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...

"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and...