Ernie Gehr Movies

"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard...

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

Humor without a banana peel.

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...

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

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...

A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his...

“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...

Animation created from early paper films.

“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr

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

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

A four-channel video work taking inspiration from a lush park environment and the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life.

Experimental film made without a lens.

"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...

16mm film (black and white, silent)

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

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

A couple waiting in a room.