Ernie Gehr Movies

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

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

A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.

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 poetic visual rendition of morning, and an evocation of my awakening to working with some basic elements of filmmaking – film emulsion...

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

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

The ever changing Lower East Side.

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

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

South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

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

Animation created from early paper films.

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

“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...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre...