Ernie Gehr Movie Trailers
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Huge Pupils Trailer (1968)
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.
Mist Trailer (2010)
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.
Glider Trailer (2001)
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.
Creatures of the Night Trailer (2024)
21 March 2024
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
Through the Hoops of Time Trailer (2020)
01 January 2020
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
Along Brighton Beach Avenue Trailer (1981)
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.
Essex Street Market Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
A 16mm black and white, silent film by Ernie Gehr.
Eureka Trailer (1974)
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.
Still Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth.
Side/Walk/Shuttle Trailer (1992)
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.
Signal - Germany on the Air Trailer (1985)
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.
As If Trailer (2013)
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.
New York Lantern Trailer (2008)
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.
The Collector Trailer (2004)
15 March 2004
"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering.
Undertow Trailer (2021)
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.
Lisa and Suzanne Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Ernie Gehr's short, silent film [...] shows two young girls, almost children still, on a New York street.
Modern Navigation Trailer (2002)
08 January 2002
"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium.
Departure Trailer (2012)
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.
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench) Trailer (2006)
08 October 2006
"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny.
Aproposessexstreetmarket Trailer (2018)
08 February 2018
"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy.
Auto-Collider XVIII Trailer (2013)
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.
For the Birds Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows Trailer (2005)
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.
Photographic Phantoms Trailer (2013)
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.
City Trailer (2002)
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’.
Work in Progress Trailer (2012)
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.
Picture Taking Trailer (2010)
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.
Back in the Park Trailer (2021)
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.
Surveillance Trailer (2010)
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.
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 Trailer (2007)
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.
Waterfront Follies Trailer (2009)
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.
Winter Morning Trailer (2013)
13 June 2013
Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing.
Brooklyn Series Trailer (2013)
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.
Floating Particles Trailer (2021)
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.
Greene Street Trailer (2004)
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.
Carnival of Shadows Trailer (2015)
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.
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!) Trailer (2014)
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.
Mirror of Dreams Trailer (2020)
31 December 2020
“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps longings.
Passage Trailer (2003)
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.
Crystal Palace Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
Before the Olympics Trailer (2006)
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.
The Quiet Car Trailer (2013)
01 October 2013
Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall.
Transport Trailer (2015)
04 June 2015
The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.
Brewster, MA Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay) Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.