Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2013
As If
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A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.
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- 2020
Through the Hoops of Time
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2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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- 2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
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This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2016
For the Birds
For the Birds02016HD
Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series
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- 1972
Lisa and Suzanne
Lisa and Suzanne01972HD
Ernie Gehr's short, silent film [...] shows two young girls, almost children still, on a New York street. Both wear blue, one washed out blue jeans,...
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- 2015
Carnival of Shadows
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Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre...
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- 2013
The Quiet Car
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Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.
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- 2023
Medicine Cabinet
Medicine Cabinet02023HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
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- 2006
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)02006HD
"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny. Having now spent several years...
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- 2020
Flying Over Brooklyn
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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,...
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- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows02005HD
Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...
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- 2004
The Astronomer's Dream
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"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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- 2016
Sensations of Light, #7
Sensations of Light, #702016HD
Humor without a banana peel.
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- 1968
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr01968HD
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...
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- 2014
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
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A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his...
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