Ernie Gehr Movies
- 1969

Reverberation
Reverberation01969HD
"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...
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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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- 2023

What’s Up!
What’s Up!02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
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- 2024

Creatures of the Night
Creatures of the Night02024HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2004

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

Work in Progress
Work in Progress02012HD
In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...
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- 2007

Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
Cinematic Fertilizer – 13.52007HD
Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...
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- 2004

Greene Street
Greene Street02004HD
"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...
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- 2015

Better than Ever
Better than Ever02015HD
Better than ever. 'They’re dancing better than ever,' commented Ernie Gehr's wife Myrel Glick on seeing how he brought these girls' dance into...
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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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- 2024

South Station
South Station02024HD
South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2024

By Rail, To Boston
By Rail, To Boston02024HD
By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2019

Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II02019HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2021

Back in the Park
Back in the Park02021HD
“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...
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- 1991

This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise01991HD
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...
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- 2010

Thank You for Visiting
Thank You for Visiting02010HD
Images of a city, superimposed.
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- 2020

New York Central
New York Central02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.
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- 2013

Winter Morning
Winter Morning02013HD
Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....
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- 2010

Picture Taking
Picture Taking02010HD
Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.
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- 2013

Photographic Phantoms
Photographic Phantoms02013HD
In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...
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