Ernie Gehr Movies

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

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

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.

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...

The ever changing Lower East Side.

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

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

Animation created from early paper films.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

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

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

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

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

"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...