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.
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
Serene Velocity Trailer (1970)
07 October 1970
An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.
Rear Window Trailer (1991)
09 August 1991
"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible.
Wait Trailer (1968)
03 September 1968
"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film.
Creatures of the Night Trailer (2024)
21 March 2024
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
Reverberation Trailer (1969)
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.
Field Trailer (1970)
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.
Pedestrian Activities Trailer (2023)
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.
Through the Hoops of Time Trailer (2020)
01 January 2020
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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.
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.
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.
Still Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth.
Flying Over Brooklyn Trailer (2020)
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.
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.
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.
Sunday in Paris Trailer (2016)
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.
Circling Essex Crossing Trailer (2018)
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.
Auto-Collider XX Trailer (2014)
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.
Auto-Collider XV Trailer (2012)
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.
ABRACADABRA Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts.
The Astronomer's Dream Trailer (2004)
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.
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II Trailer (2019)
15 March 2019
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.