Ernie Gehr Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.

"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems...

“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...

"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 stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

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

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

The ever changing Lower East Side.

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

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

"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,...

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

"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to...

Ernie working his magic.

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

Animation created from early paper films.

"Serene Velocity" remade at USF Tampa in Cooper Hall

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...