Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2009
Waterfront Follies
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American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...
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- 2015
Better than Ever
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Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.
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- 2024
Creatures of the Night
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This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 1969
Transparency
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An “action” movie in which the processes of recording and projecting moving images are the protagonists and the field of action is the...
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- 2008
New York Lantern
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In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...
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- 2023
Pedestrian Activities
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"I have a number of doctors that I have to see – getting older and it’s an issue all the time, and they are on the Upper East Side. I...
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- 2003
Carte de Visite
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Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...
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- 2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
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This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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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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- 2021
Back in the Park
Back in the Park02021HD
“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...
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- 2010
Picture Taking
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Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.
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- 2019
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
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This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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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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- 2015
Transport
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The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.
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- 2013
As If
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A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.
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- 2023
What’s Up!
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2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
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- 2016
Sunday in Paris
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"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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- 2018
Construction Sight
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Ernie working his magic.
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- 2006
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
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"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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- 2012
Auto-Collider XV
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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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