Ernie Gehr Movies

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

"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,...

Humor without a banana peel.

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...

This short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...

Sounds and images were recorded at the Polish flea-market, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, autumn 1989, a few days before the Berlin Wall came down. An...

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

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

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...

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

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

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

16mm film (black and white, silent)