Ernie Gehr Movies

"Serene Velocity" remade at USF Tampa in Cooper Hall

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

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

"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious,...

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…

Ernie working his magic.

Animation created from early paper films.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

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

The ever changing Lower East Side.

“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...

City is grounded in the familiar everyday world of the street. Yet, the ground often gives way plastically, opening up a dense and paradoxical field...

Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught...

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all...

An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

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