Movies

A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.

"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. I...

"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...

"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...

Abstract short film.

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.

Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.

The missing chapter of Schivelbusch's The Railroad Journey. A museum piece. Recorded in Berlin, Feb. 2015.

“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and...

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

Ernie working his magic.

A four-channel video work taking inspiration from a lush park environment and the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

"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...

Gehr replaces the camera lens with a half-spherical piece of plastic and filmed around his apartment, producing bands of color and light.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.