Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2004
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)72004HD
16mm film (black and white, silent)
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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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- 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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- 2006
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)02006HD
"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny. Having now spent several years...
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- 2023
High-Wire Act
High-Wire Act02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.
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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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- 2020
Through the Hoops of Time
Through the Hoops of Time02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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- 1985
Signal - Germany on the Air
Signal - Germany on the Air01985HD
"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems...
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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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- 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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- 2004
The Astronomer's Dream
The Astronomer's Dream02004HD
"Replete with visual and audiovisual humor, these works not only celebrate the pleasures of perception, as well as physical spaces and spaces of the...
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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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- 2016
Sensations of Light, #7
Sensations of Light, #702016HD
Humor without a banana peel.
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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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- 2010
Chambers of Time
Chambers of Time02010HD
2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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- 2019
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II02019HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 1991
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise81991HD
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...
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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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