Ernie Gehr Movies
- 2024
By Rail, To Boston
By Rail, To Boston02024HD
By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2024
South Station
South Station02024HD
South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.
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- 2023
Medicine Cabinet
Medicine Cabinet02023HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.
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- 1970
History
History71970HD
Experimental film made without a lens.
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- 2010
Thank You for Visiting
Thank You for Visiting02010HD
Images of a city, superimposed.
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- 1977
Untitled
Untitled01977HD
As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...
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- 1969
Reverberation
Reverberation01969HD
Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.
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- 1992
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Side/Walk/Shuttle6.51992HD
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...
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- 2007
Water Spell
Water Spell72007HD
"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,...
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- 1970
Serene Velocity
Serene Velocity4.51970HD
Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...
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- 2012
Departure
Departure02012HD
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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- 2005
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows02005HD
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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- 2011
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace102011HD
An ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
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- 2002
Cotton Candy
Cotton Candy02002HD
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. For slightly...
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- 2014
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)02014HD
A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) gives sculptural dimension and kaleidoscopic novelty to footage shot by Gehr during his commutes from his...
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- 2020
New York Central
New York Central02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.
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- 2006
Before the Olympics
Before the Olympics02006HD
“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
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- 1974
Eureka
Eureka5.71974HD
Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...
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- 2022
Lisbon Views
Lisbon Views02022HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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- 1968
Huge Pupils
Huge Pupils01968HD
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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