Ernie Gehr Movies

The ever changing Lower East Side.

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

Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...

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

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

"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...

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

An “action” movie in which the processes of recording and projecting moving images are the protagonists and the field of action is the...

“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...

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.

Ernie working his magic.

"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny. Having now spent several years...

American avant-garde master Ernie Gehr’s stunning Waterfront Follies (USA) is a work of extended sublime that presents a view of the Brooklyn...

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.

Film by Ernie Gehr

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.