Ernie Gehr Movies

By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.

Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...

“We are confronted with everyday images in a romantic way. If you are patient, you eventually see a deli sign that says ‘Carroll...

Humor without a banana peel.

Better than ever. 'They’re dancing better than ever,' commented Ernie Gehr's wife Myrel Glick on seeing how he brought these girls' dance into...

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

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

"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)

"The footage for Transparency was recorded at variable camera speeds (from approx. 5 fps to around 40 fps). In this process, when later projected at...

Gehr's preferred title for this film was not actually The Astronomer’s Dream—a direct homage reference to the seminal Georges...

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

Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

"The title is a reference to the force-field within the rectangle. To accentuate its character I filmed with B&W filmstock." – Ernie Gehr

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

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth. The superimpositions seem to lie on top of...