Movies
- 2006
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)02006HD
"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...
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- 2015
Better than Ever
Better than Ever02015HD
Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.
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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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- 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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- 2016
Sunday in Paris
Sunday in Paris02016HD
"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...
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- 2008
New York Lantern
New York Lantern02008HD
In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...
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- 2020
New York Central
New York Central02020HD
2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.
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- 2022
Lisbon Views
Lisbon Views02022HD
2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.
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- 2004
Precarious Garden
Precarious Garden02004HD
A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.
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- 1976
Table
Table6.21976HD
Short experimental film featuring a kitchen table shot from various angles through colour filters.
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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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- 2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)02015HD
This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
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- 2020
Flying Over Brooklyn
Flying Over Brooklyn02020HD
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,...
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- 2023
Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens02023HD
2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.
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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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- 2015
Carnival of Shadows
Carnival of Shadows02015HD
Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre...
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- 2010
Picture Taking
Picture Taking02010HD
Picture Taking is focused on "verticality" and urban sightseeing as well as on some of the pictorial possibilities of the HD digital format.
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- 2011
Brewster, MA
Brewster, MA02011HD
“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr
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- 2021
Back in the Park
Back in the Park02021HD
“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...
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- 2013
As If
As If02013HD
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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