Ernie Gehr Movies

A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

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

"The footage for Transparency was recorded at variable camera speeds (from approx. 5 fps to around 40 fps). In this process, when later projected at...

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

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

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

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a...

Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.

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

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.

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

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

"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...

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

"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...

"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,...

"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...