Ernie Gehr Movies

"A poetic visual rendition of morning, and an evocation of my awakening to working with some basic elements of filmmaking – film emulsion...

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...

Ernie working his magic.

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...

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

The ever changing Lower East Side.

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

"Replete with visual and audiovisual humor, these works not only celebrate the pleasures of perception, as well as physical spaces and spaces of the...

"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,...

"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...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.

"The title is a reference to the force-field within the rectangle. To accentuate its character I filmed with B&W filmstock." – Ernie Gehr

“We are confronted with everyday images in a romantic way. If you are patient, you eventually see a deli sign that says ‘Carroll...

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

"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...

"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...

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

“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...