Ernie Gehr Movies

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

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

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

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

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

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

Short experimental film featuring a kitchen table shot from various angles through colour filters.

"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,...

A couple waiting in a room.

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...

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...

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.

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

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

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

"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...

Film by Ernie Gehr

This short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...