Ernie Gehr Trailers
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"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: 99
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.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
01 January 2004
A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.
07 October 1970
An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.
09 August 1991
"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible.
24 April 2017
The ever changing Lower East Side.
03 September 1968
"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film.
21 March 2024
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
18 April 1969
"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a presentation of the physical movement of film itself, stranding the photo-memory of persons/objects/their relationships in a cinematic force-field wherein images are offered up and simultaneously swept away by conflicting energies.
01 January 1970
"The title is a reference to the force-field within the rectangle. To accentuate its character I filmed with B&W filmstock.
23 March 2023
"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.
01 January 2020
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
10 November 2024
South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.
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.
01 January 2010
2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
15 August 2007
A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
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.
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.
01 January 1971
"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth.
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.
21 March 2023
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
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 2012
From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception convene into a “phantom ride.
08 January 2002
"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium.
23 November 2015
Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.
08 October 2006
"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny.
08 February 2018
"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy.
01 January 2013
A slice of life. An advanced exploration of motor- coordination. Taking to the streets for a new formulation of optical mechanics in a darker key and a slanting grade.
01 January 2016
Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series
12 January 2005
Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and dissolving views.
22 March 2012
In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex urban street scene to form a mesmerizing tableau.
01 January 2013
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.
01 January 2002
City is grounded in the familiar everyday world of the street. Yet, the ground often gives way plastically, opening up a dense and paradoxical field for visual musings and delights as colours, solids and transparencies as well as spaces within spaces weave a tapestry of a somewhat familiar ‘city’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
04 June 2016
Humor without a banana peel.
31 December 2020
“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps longings.
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…
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 January 2010
Images of a city, superimposed.
01 October 2013
Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall.
01 January 2011
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr
04 June 2015
The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.
