Barry Gerson Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Amid Guanajuato's vibrant streets, an aging filmmaker becomes a modern Don Quixote, joined by a spirited young animator as his loyal Sanchia....

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

SUNLIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Sunlight patterns on a window in constant change through subtle camera swings – the motions repeated...

Film by Barry Gerson

GROUP II: WATER (1969, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Two images of a lapping water level, used at the beginning and end of the film, counterpointing the...

"Endurance/Rememberance/Metamorphosis is a film composed of three parts of equal duration. Each part consists of a single shot of a minimal space."...

“Since all matter in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore , in constant motion. My film/videos become an activated metaphor to...

"Oblique mattes, instead of blocking the vision, accentuate our ability to see and appreciate details, narrowing and expanding the focus of our...

An elegant study of light, color, geometry, and perspective.

GROUP I: GRASS (1969, 1 min, 16mm, silent) Grass to reeds to sky – the gradual melting of grass image to become the blue of the sky. ICE...

"I would like to say something else in relation to the Automatic Free Form Film movement. The camera was constantly moving. Movement was used to...

The film is in three sections each dealing with a different manifestation of the relationships between colors and shapes and their effect on our...

"Two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously." - Barry Gerson Poetic structure created through masking out of two separate images...

With light-drenched visuals illuminating a screenplay of "dialogue and poetry," filmmaker Gerson made this short B&W experimental feature about a man...

Evocations of a space in the mind – limitless, soundless. Blackness punctuated by bursting water bubbles ascending and descending into the...

2022 digital work by Barry Gerson

“Since all matter in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore , in constant motion. My film/videos become an activated metaphor to...