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...

Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...

"Film in its primordial state in which patterns of light and darkness are still undivided. Like the natural order of the universe, an unbroken flow...

Images of a city, superimposed.

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

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

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

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.

"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a...

2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...

Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....

“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and...

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

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

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

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