Ernie Gehr Movies

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

16mm film (black and white, silent)

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

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

"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...

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

“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...

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

"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems...

"Before my son was born, friends would ask me "Will you make a baby movie, now?". "Of course not!", I would answer. Yet, right after Daniel was born...

"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,...

“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...

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

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

Animation created from early paper films.

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

"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background. After a few minutes, there...

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

"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...