Ernie Gehr Movies

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

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

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

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

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...

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

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.

The ever changing Lower East Side.

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre...

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

Animation created from early paper films.

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

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

Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.