Ernie Gehr Movies
- 1968
Morning
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"A poetic visual rendition of morning, and an evocation of my awakening to working with some basic elements of filmmaking – film emulsion...
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- 2023
Medicine Cabinet
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2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
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- 2004
Noon Time Activities
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16mm film (black and white, silent)
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- 2010
Thank You for Visiting
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Images of a city, superimposed.
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- 2009
Hurry Up Henrietta
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Film by Ernie Gehr
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- 1970
Field
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"The title is a reference to the force-field within the rectangle. To accentuate its character I filmed with B&W filmstock." – Ernie Gehr
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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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- 2016
For the Birds
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Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series
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- 2016
Sensations of Light, #7
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Humor without a banana peel.
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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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- 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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- 2015
Better than Ever
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Better than ever. 'They’re dancing better than ever,' commented Ernie Gehr's wife Myrel Glick on seeing how he brought these girls' dance into...
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- 1974
Shift
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“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...
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- 2018
Circling Essex Crossing
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"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...
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- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
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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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- 1968
Huge Pupils
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In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...
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- 1992
Side/Walk/Shuttle
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In this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and...
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- 2024
By Rail, To Boston
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By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2014
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
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A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his...
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- 2013
Winter Morning
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Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....
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