Ernie Gehr Movies

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

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

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

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...

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

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.

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

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

A couple waiting in a room.

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

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex...

16mm film (black and white, silent)

Film by Ernie Gehr

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

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

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

"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...

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