Ernie Gehr Movies

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

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...

For about sixty minutes, STILL peers through a New York City street level window, watching the storefronts and windows across the way. People come...

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,...

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

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

"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...

"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...

Ernie working his magic.

"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...

An “action” movie in which the processes of recording and projecting moving images are the protagonists and the field of action is the...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.

In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...

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

Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

Abstract short film.

Humor without a banana peel.