Ernie Gehr Movies

"Serene Velocity" remade at USF Tampa in Cooper Hall

Ernie working his magic.

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.

"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious,...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...

"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.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...

The ever changing Lower East Side.

“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all...

“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught...

An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...

"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...

A translation of volumes in space into a vibratory painted desert and living lines. A new register in an optical Richter scale.

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.