Ernie Gehr Movies

Ernie working his magic.

"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...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...

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

"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and...

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

“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...

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

"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,...

Humor without a banana peel.

Film by Ernie Gehr

16mm film (black and white, silent)

"Replete with visual and audiovisual humor, these works not only celebrate the pleasures of perception, as well as physical spaces and spaces of the...

"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...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of...

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