Ernie Gehr Movies

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

"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard...

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

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

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...

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

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

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.

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

"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...

This short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...

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

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

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

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

16mm film (black and white, silent)

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