Ernie Gehr
Biography
"Born in 1941, he began making eight-millimeter films in the mid-’60s. The precipitating event, he told the writer Scott MacDonald in a 2002-3 interview, was a program of Stan Brakhage films that Mr. Gehr caught in New York on a rainy night. The works excited him partly because in their abstraction and attention to color, texture and rhythm they were closer to his experience of 20th-century painting than of movies, and he continued to seek out more of the same. He eventually ended up at the Mill…
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Filmography
Acting (3)
Crew (94)
Movies (94)
Carroll Gardens
2024Director
Creatures of the Night
2024Director
South Station
2024Director
By Rail, To Boston
2024Director
Pedestrian Activities
2023Director
High-Wire Act
2023Director
Medicine Cabinet
2023Director
What’s Up!
2023Director
Lisbon Views
2022Director
Back in the Park
2021Director
Floating Particles
2021Director
Undertow
2021Director
Flying Over Brooklyn
2020Director
Through the Hoops of Time
2020Director
Mirror of Dreams
2020Director
New York Central
2020Director
Delirium
2020Director
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2019Director
Circling Essex Crossing
2018Director
Construction Sight
2018Director
Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018Director
Autumn
2017Director
Street Scenes
2017Director
For the Birds
2016Director
Sensations of Light, #7
2016Director
Sunday in Paris
2016Director
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015Director
Transport
2015Director
Carnival of Shadows
2015Director
Bon Voyage
2015Director
Better than Ever
2015Director
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014Director
Auto-Collider XX
2014Director
As If
2013Director
Auto-Collider XVIII
2013Director
Photographic Phantoms
2013Director
Winter Morning
2013Director
The Quiet Car
2013Director
Brooklyn Series
2013Director
20 Little Films
2012Director
Auto-Collider XV
2012Director
Work in Progress
2012Director
Departure
2012Director
Brewster, MA
2011Director
Crystal Palace
2011Director
Auto-Collider
2010Writer
Chambers of Time
2010Director
Thank You for Visiting
2010Writer
Picture Taking
2010Director
Surveillance
2010Director
Mist
2010Director
Hurry Up Henrietta
2009Director
Waterfront Follies
2009Director
ABRACADABRA
2009Director
New York Lantern
2008Director
Water Spell
2007Thanks
Shadow
2007Director
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007Director
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2006Director
Before the Olympics
2006Director
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2005Director
The Astronomer's Dream
2004Director
The Collector
2004Director
Precarious Garden
2004Director
Greene Street
2004Director
Noon Time Activities
2004Director
Essex Street Market
2004Director
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2004Director
Passage
2003Director
Cotton Candy
2002Director
Modern Navigation
2002Director
City
2002Director
Glider
2001Director
For Daniel
1997Director
Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992Director
This Side of Paradise
1991Director
Rear Window
1991Director
Signal - Germany on the Air
1985Director
Mirage
1981Director
Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981Director
Untitled
1977Camera Operator
Table
1976Director
Behind the Scenes
1975Director
Shift
1974Director
Eureka
1974Director
Lisa and Suzanne
1972Director
Still
1971Director
Field
1970Writer
Serene Velocity
1970Director
History
1970Director
Transparency
1969Director
Reverberation
1969Director
Wait
1968Director
Morning
1968Director
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