Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2002

Cotton Candy
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Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...
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- 2007

Water Spell
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"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,...
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- 2013

As If
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A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.
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- 1992

Side/Walk/Shuttle
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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...
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- 2004

Precarious Garden
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A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.
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- 1974

Shift
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“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...
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- 2024

Carroll Gardens
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“We are confronted with everyday images in a romantic way. If you are patient, you eventually see a deli sign that says ‘Carroll...
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- 2003

Passage
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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...
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- 1991

This Side of Paradise
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Sounds and images were recorded at the Polish flea-market, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, autumn 1989, a few days before the Berlin Wall came down. An...
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- 1971

Still
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"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...
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- 2023

Medicine Cabinet
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2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
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- 2004

The Collector
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"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...
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- 2011

Crystal Palace
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An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
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- 2023

Pedestrian Activities
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"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...
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- 2007

Shadow
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A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
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- 1968

Wait
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"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to...
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- 2009

Hurry Up Henrietta
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Film by Ernie Gehr
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- 1970

Serene Velocity
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"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared...
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- 2010

Auto-Collider
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Abstract short featuring mirrored images.
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- 2014

Auto-Collider XX
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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...
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