Ernie Gehr Movies

"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...

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

"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth. The superimpositions seem to lie on top of...

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

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

"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...

Ernie working his magic.

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...

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

The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of...

A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.

A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...

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

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

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

Film by Ernie Gehr

Humor without a banana peel.

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

Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...