Ernie Gehr Movies

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

"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...

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,...

Film by Ernie Gehr

"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...

"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...

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

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

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

16mm film (black and white, silent)

"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and...

In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...

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

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...

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

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

"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared...

"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place...