Ernie Gehr Movies

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...

Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...

Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.

Film by Ernie Gehr

For about sixty minutes, STILL peers through a New York City street level window, watching the storefronts and windows across the way. People come...

Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...

A couple waiting in a room.

"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...

A no-holds-barred trip into painterly abstraction — where an Agnes Martin painting meets a rapid-fire back-and-forth Gerhard Richter squeegee...

Short experimental film featuring a kitchen table shot from various angles through colour filters.

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...

Humor without a banana peel.

As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...

“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...

Ernie working his magic.

The ever changing Lower East Side.

South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.