Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2024
By Rail, To Boston
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By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2024
Carroll Gardens
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2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.
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- 2023
What’s Up!
What’s Up!02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.
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- 1970
Field
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Abstract short film.
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- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
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Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...
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- 2013
As If
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A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.
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- 2012
Departure
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From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...
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- 1991
Rear Window
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"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...
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- 2009
ABRACADABRA
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“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and...
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- 1997
For Daniel
For Daniel01997HD
"Before my son was born, friends would ask me "Will you make a baby movie, now?". "Of course not!", I would answer. Yet, right after Daniel was born...
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- 2007
Shadow
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A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.
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- 2003
Carte de Visite
Carte de Visite72003HD
Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...
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- 1968
Huge Pupils
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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...
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- 2016
For the Birds
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Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series
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- 2019
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
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This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 1970
History
History71970HD
Experimental film made without a lens.
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- 2021
Undertow
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“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...
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- 2018
Aproposessexstreetmarket
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"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of...
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- 2003
Passage
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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...
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- 2011
Crystal Palace
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An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
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