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 Millennium Film Workshop and borrowing a light meter from the filmmaker Ken Jacobs (with whom Mr. Gehr shares an interest in early cinema). As he walked around New York reading light, as it were, Mr. Gehr discovered “the character of light” and learned about “cinema’s dependency on light.”
(from NYTimes profile by Manohla Dargis. Full piece here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/movies/ernie-gehrs-films-traffic-in-images-and-light.html?_r=0)
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (93 movies)
Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992
Serene Velocity
1970
Wait
1968
Table
1976
Auto-Collider XVIII
2013
Auto-Collider XX
2014
History
1970
Still
1971
Morning
1968
Passage
2003
New York Central
2020
Signal - Germany on the Air
1985
Eureka
1974
Reverberation
1969
Floating Particles
2021
Undertow
2021
Brewster, MA
2011
Mirror of Dreams
2020
Back in the Park
2021
Untitled
1977
Transparency
1969
ABRACADABRA
2009
Departure
2012
Crystal Palace
2011
Mist
2010
Rear Window
1991
Hurry Up Henrietta
2009
Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981
Carnival of Shadows
2015
Field
1970
Thank You for Visiting
2010
Auto-Collider
2010
Lisa and Suzanne
1972
Better than Ever
2015
Bon Voyage
2015
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014
New York Lantern
2008
Photographic Phantoms
2013
Shift
1974
Waterfront Follies
2009
For the Birds
2016
Precarious Garden
2004
Auto-Collider XV
2012
20 Little Films
2012
What’s Up!
2023
Lisbon Views
2022
High-Wire Act
2023
Carroll Gardens
2024
Chambers of Time
2010
Through the Hoops of Time
2020
Work in Progress
2012
Delirium
2020
Creatures of the Night
2024
Medicine Cabinet
2023
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015
Pedestrian Activities
2023
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2019
As If
2013
Cotton Candy
2002
Sensations of Light, #7
2016
Autumn
2017
Picture Taking
2010
Transport
2015
Brooklyn Series
2013
The Quiet Car
2013
Essex Street Market
2004
Mirage
1981
Street Scenes
2017
Surveillance
2010
Behind the Scenes
1975
This Side of Paradise
1991
For Daniel
1997
The Astronomer's Dream
2004
Glider
2001
Modern Navigation
2002
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2004
Noon Time Activities
2004
Greene Street
2004
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2005
Flying Over Brooklyn
2020
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2006
Before the Olympics
2006
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007
Construction Sight
2018
Sunday in Paris
2016
City
2002
Shadow
2007
The Collector
2004
Winter Morning
2013
Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018
Circling Essex Crossing
2018
By Rail, To Boston
2024
South Station
2024
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Field | 1970 | Writer |
| Thank You for Visiting | 2010 | Writer |
| Auto-Collider | 2010 | Writer |