Ernie Gehr Movies

“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

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

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

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...

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

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

"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of...

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...

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,...

16mm film (black and white, silent)

Sounds and images were recorded at the Polish flea-market, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, autumn 1989, a few days before the Berlin Wall came down. An...

A short film by Ernie Gehr.

A 16mm black and white, silent film by Ernie Gehr.