Ernie Gehr Movies

"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place...

The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...

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

Images of a city, superimposed.

Ernie Gehr's short, silent film [...] shows two young girls, almost children still, on a New York street. Both wear blue, one washed out blue jeans,...

A 16mm black and white, silent film by Ernie Gehr.

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

This short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...

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

“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...

"The visual was recorded through, not a lens, but an adjustable slit-like opening, which was attached in front of the image sensor. I was changing...

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

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...

In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...

A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...

16mm film (black and white, silent)

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

"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background. After a few minutes, there...