Ernie Gehr Movie Trailers
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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.
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.
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.
Delirium Trailer (2020)
01 January 2020
"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard which ended up being my interaction with nature – that’s where 'Flying Over Brooklyn' was recorded.
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.
20 Little Films Trailer (2012)
13 February 2012
Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival.
Table Trailer (1976)
01 November 1976
"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and utensils.
Wait Trailer (1968)
03 September 1968
"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film.
Shift Trailer (1974)
04 June 1974
“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage.
For Daniel Trailer (1997)
18 February 1997
"Before my son was born, friends would ask me "Will you make a baby movie, now?". "Of course not!", I would answer.
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of Non-Industrial Cinema Within Our Cultural Heritage in 1984.
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.
This Side of Paradise Trailer (1991)
06 June 1991
Sounds and images were recorded at the Polish flea-market, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, autumn 1989, a few days before the Berlin Wall came down.
Rear Window Trailer (1991)
09 August 1991
"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible.
Untitled Trailer (1977)
01 June 1977
"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear.
Mirage Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
"Abstraction in Gehr behaves like an X-ray, revealing unexpected patterns of order under the skin of things.
Clear Blue Sky Trailer (2006)
14 February 2006
"The visual was recorded through, not a lens, but an adjustable slit-like opening, which was attached in front of the image sensor.
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.
Serene Velocity Trailer (1970)
07 October 1970
"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared down the center of an empty institutional hallway – thus playing off the contradiction generated by the frames’ heightened flatness and the compositions’ severely overdetermined perspective.
Carroll Gardens Trailer (2024)
16 March 2024
“We are confronted with everyday images in a romantic way. If you are patient, you eventually see a deli sign that says ‘Carroll Gardens,’ a bike, a stroller.
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.
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière) Trailer (2004)
08 January 2004
16mm film (black and white, silent)
Better than Ever Trailer (2015)
23 November 2015
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 contemporary light.
History Trailer (1970)
17 July 1970
"Film in its primordial state in which patterns of light and darkness are still undivided. Like the natural order of the universe, an unbroken flow in which movement and distribution of tension is infinitely subtle, and a finite orientation seems impossible.
Water Spell Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure.
Cotton Candy Trailer (2002)
30 April 2002
Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique.
Transparency Trailer (1969)
22 December 1969
"The footage for Transparency was recorded at variable camera speeds (from approx. 5 fps to around 40 fps).
Morning Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
"A poetic visual rendition of morning, and an evocation of my awakening to working with some basic elements of filmmaking – film emulsion responsiveness to light, as well as an initial approach to the relationship between a frame and a shot.
Behind the Scenes Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background.
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.