Ernie Gehr Movies

“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...

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

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

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

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

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

The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.

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...

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

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

The past is never delineated through Gehr‘s film, an unorthodox “city symphony” composed of largely static compositions of West...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

"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...

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...

Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.

"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...

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.

"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious,...

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.