Ernie Gehr Trailers
Chambers of Time TrailerHuge Pupils TrailerA Portrait of Ernie Gehr Trailer
"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)
Most Popular Ernie Gehr Trailers
Total trailers found: 98
28 May 1968
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 would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.
10 November 2024
By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
01 January 2010
Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon the image its particular character.
01 January 2001
Cool, delirious, and mysterious. Futuristic, yet ancient. A voyage into a pictorial space-world that seems to be governed by extraterrestrial optical and gravitational laws.
21 March 2024
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
01 January 2020
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
10 November 2024
South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.
01 January 2010
2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
15 August 2007
A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
11 June 2018
Ernie working his magic.
01 January 1981
The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle.
01 January 2004
A 16mm black and white, silent film by Ernie Gehr.
02 January 1974
"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place it is.
01 January 1971
"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth.
05 October 1992
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 down, constantly shifting the orientation of his camera to offer images of the city as a zone of constant flux, freed from gravity and in perpetual rearrangement.
01 January 1985
"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems suddenly so ethereal that the film's title, taken from a 1940s pulp magazine, becomes fact.
21 March 2023
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
04 June 2010
Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.
08 November 2021
“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan.
01 January 2010
A four-channel video work taking inspiration from a lush park environment and the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life.
08 January 2004
16mm film (black and white, silent)
20 June 2007
Two related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure characteristic of certain other Gehr's videotapes (Before the Olympics, The Morse Code Operator), rapidly flipping between two separate images.
19 March 2023
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.
13 June 2013
Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing.
11 September 2009
American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn harbour as it is continuously interrupted by the flow of human interaction.
04 June 2013
A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.
08 March 2021
“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns of color, light and darkness.
01 January 2009
Film by Ernie Gehr
21 November 2015
Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre cinema, a playful exercise in moving-image graphics, and an extension of the artists' interest in the abstraction, texture, and rhythms of visual material.
08 January 2004
"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.
01 January 2014
A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his native New York to Harvard, where he was teaching a seminar on the history of phantasmagoria, of cinema before cinema.
31 December 2020
“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps longings.
04 June 2016
Humor without a banana peel.
21 October 2003
Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin.
01 January 2011
An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
01 January 2010
Images of a city, superimposed.
07 November 2006
“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for the then-upcoming Winter Olympics.
01 October 2013
Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall.
04 June 2015
The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.
01 January 2011
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr
01 January 2020
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.
01 January 2015
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
14 June 2016
"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the illusionary, subjective experience of time.
19 March 2023
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
23 February 2018
"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing is, for me, a metaphor for the evolving transformation of the Lower East Side.
01 January 2014
The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really like the city very much but we also miss New York.
07 September 2012
A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee and the world is swiftly sent asunder.
01 January 2009
“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts.
07 July 2004
"Replete with visual and audiovisual humor, these works not only celebrate the pleasures of perception, as well as physical spaces and spaces of the mind, but also remain ethereal and multi-faceted in their formal and perceptual attributes.
15 March 2019
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
01 January 2010
Abstract short featuring mirrored images.
08 July 2020
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, thinking, and faring during the quarantine.
05 October 2013
A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.
01 January 2008
In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by ghosts, from long-ago travels and struggles, that are gifted with an uncanny voice and presence.
15 March 2004
"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering.
24 April 2017
The ever changing Lower East Side.
08 November 2021
“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from the rest.
28 March 2017
Animation created from early paper films.
01 January 1972
Ernie Gehr's short, silent film [...] shows two young girls, almost children still, on a New York street.
08 January 2002
"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium.
