Ernie Gehr Movies

City is grounded in the familiar everyday world of the street. Yet, the ground often gives way plastically, opening up a dense and paradoxical field...

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

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...

By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

"I have a number of doctors that I have to see – getting older and it’s an issue all the time, and they are on the Upper East Side. I...

"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...

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...

Film by Ernie Gehr

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.

The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...

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...

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

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