Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2015

Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage02015HD
Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.
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- 2004

Noon Time Activities
Noon Time Activities02004HD
16mm film (black and white, silent)
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- 2012

Auto-Collider XV
Auto-Collider XV02012HD
A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...
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- 2004

Essex Street Market
Essex Street Market02004HD
A 16mm black and white, silent film by Ernie Gehr.
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- 1974

Eureka
Eureka5.71974HD
"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...
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- 2010

Surveillance
Surveillance02010HD
A four-channel video work taking inspiration from a lush park environment and the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life.
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- 2006

Before the Olympics
Before the Olympics02006HD
“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
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- 2011

Brewster, MA
Brewster, MA02011HD
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr
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- 1985

Signal - Germany on the Air
Signal - Germany on the Air01985HD
"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems...
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- 1997

For Daniel
For Daniel01997HD
"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...
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- 2002

Modern Navigation
Modern Navigation02002HD
"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,...
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- 2020

Mirror of Dreams
Mirror of Dreams02020HD
“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...
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- 2004

The Astronomer's Dream
The Astronomer's Dream02004HD
"Replete with visual and audiovisual humor, these works not only celebrate the pleasures of perception, as well as physical spaces and spaces of the...
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- 2009

Waterfront Follies
Waterfront Follies02009HD
American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...
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- 2024

Creatures of the Night
Creatures of the Night02024HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2017

Street Scenes
Street Scenes02017HD
Animation created from early paper films.
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- 2021

Floating Particles
Floating Particles02021HD
“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...
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- 1975

Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes01975HD
"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background. After a few minutes, there...
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- 2016

Sunday in Paris
Sunday in Paris02016HD
"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...
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- 2020

Delirium
Delirium02020HD
"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...
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