Ernie Gehr Movies

Short experimental film featuring a kitchen table shot from various angles through colour filters.

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

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

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

Images of a city, superimposed.

16mm film (black and white, silent)

In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...

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

Film by Ernie Gehr

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.

“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...

The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of...

"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,...

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

"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard...

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

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

A four-channel video work taking inspiration from a lush park environment and the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life.