Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2015
Better than Ever
Better than Ever02015HD
Better than ever. 'They’re dancing better than ever,' commented Ernie Gehr's wife Myrel Glick on seeing how he brought these girls' dance into...
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- 2020
Through the Hoops of Time
Through the Hoops of Time02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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- 2023
High-Wire Act
High-Wire Act02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.
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- 2014
Auto-Collider XX
Auto-Collider XX02014HD
The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...
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- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows02005HD
Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...
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- 2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)02015HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2024
By Rail, To Boston
By Rail, To Boston02024HD
By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2020
New York Central
New York Central02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.
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- 2024
Creatures of the Night
Creatures of the Night02024HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2016
Sunday in Paris
Sunday in Paris02016HD
"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...
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- 2010
Thank You for Visiting
Thank You for Visiting02010HD
Images of a city, superimposed.
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- 2012
Auto-Collider XV
Auto-Collider XV02012HD
A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...
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- 2020
Flying Over Brooklyn
Flying Over Brooklyn02020HD
This short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...
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- 2023
What’s Up!
What’s Up!02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
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- 1968
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr01968HD
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...
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- 2006
Before the Olympics
Before the Olympics02006HD
“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
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- 2013
The Quiet Car
The Quiet Car02013HD
Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.
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- 2004
Essex Street Market
Essex Street Market02004HD
A 16mm black and white, silent film by Ernie Gehr.
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- 2021
Back in the Park
Back in the Park02021HD
“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...
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- 2010
Chambers of Time
Chambers of Time02010HD
2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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