Ernie Gehr Filmes

Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...

For about sixty minutes, STILL peers through a New York City street level window, watching the storefronts and windows across the way. People come...

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

In this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and...

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.

Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.

A couple waiting in a room.

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

"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,...

Ernie working his magic.

“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and...

As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...

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

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

Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...