Ernie Gehr Movies

"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...

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

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

“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...

"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of...

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

16mm film (black and white, silent)

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

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard...

“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...

A slice of life. An advanced exploration of motor- coordination. Taking to the streets for a new formulation of optical mechanics in a darker key and...

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

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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