Ernie Gehr
Directing
Born January 1, 1941
"Born in 1941, he began making eight-millimeter films in the mid-’60s. The precipitating event, he told the writer Scott MacDonald in a 2002-3 interview, was a program of Stan Brakhage films that Mr. Gehr caught in New York on a rainy night. The works excited him partly because in their abstraction and attention to color, texture and rhythm they were closer to his experience of 20th-century painting than of movies, and he continued to seek out more of the same. He eventually ended up at the Millennium Film Workshop and borrowing a light meter from the filmmaker Ken Jacobs (with whom Mr. Gehr shares an interest in early cinema). As he walked around New York reading light, as it were, Mr. Gehr discovered “the character of light” and learned about “cinema’s dependency on light.” (from NYTimes profile by Manohla Dargis. Full piece here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/movies/ernie-gehrs-films-traffic-in-images-and-light.html?_r=0)
Directed (93)
By Rail, To Boston
2024
South Station
2024
Creatures of the Night
2024
Carroll Gardens
2024
Pedestrian Activities
2023
Medicine Cabinet
2023
What’s Up!
2023
High-Wire Act
2023
Lisbon Views
2022
Undertow
2021
Back in the Park
2021
Floating Particles
2021
Mirror of Dreams
2020
Flying Over Brooklyn
2020
New York Central
2020
Through the Hoops of Time
2020
Delirium
2020
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2019
Construction Sight
2018
Circling Essex Crossing
2018
Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018
Autumn
2017
Street Scenes
2017
Sunday in Paris
2016
Sensations of Light, #7
2016
For the Birds
2016
Better than Ever
2015
Bon Voyage
2015
Carnival of Shadows
2015
Transport
2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015
Auto-Collider XX
2014
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014
As If
2013
The Quiet Car
2013
Winter Morning
2013
Brooklyn Series
2013
Auto-Collider XVIII
2013
Photographic Phantoms
2013
Auto-Collider XV
2012
Work in Progress
2012
20 Little Films
2012
Departure
2012
Brewster, MA
2011
Crystal Palace
2011
Picture Taking
2010
Mist
2010
Thank You for Visiting
2010
Auto-Collider
2010
Chambers of Time
2010
Surveillance
2010
Waterfront Follies
2009
ABRACADABRA
2009
Hurry Up Henrietta
2009
New York Lantern
2008
Shadow
2007
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007
Before the Olympics
2006
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2006
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2005
The Astronomer's Dream
2004
The Collector
2004
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2004
Noon Time Activities
2004
Greene Street
2004
Precarious Garden
2004
Essex Street Market
2004
Passage
2003
Cotton Candy
2002
Modern Navigation
2002
City
2002
Glider
2001
For Daniel
1997
Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992
Rear Window
1991
This Side of Paradise
1991
Signal - Germany on the Air
1985
Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981
Mirage
1981
Untitled
1977
Table
1976
Behind the Scenes
1975
Shift
1974
Eureka
1974
Lisa and Suzanne
1972
Still
1971
Serene Velocity
1970
History
1970
Field
1970
Transparency
1969
Reverberation
1969
Wait
1968
Morning
1968
