Ernie Gehr Movies

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

The ever changing Lower East Side.

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught...

“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...

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...

Lyrical debut film of avant-garde/structuralist filmmaker Ernie Gehr. Morning light streams through a window in Gehr's apartment. As Gehr changes the...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

2010. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

City is grounded in the familiar everyday world of the street. Yet, the ground often gives way plastically, opening up a dense and paradoxical field...

Inconvenient miracles escape prediction but require attention. Roadblocks are building blocks for daily adventures in seeing. Snowscreens. —M....

Humor without a banana peel.

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.

“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all...

A slice of life. An advanced exploration of motor- coordination. Taking to the streets for a new formulation of optical mechanics in a darker key and...

Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.

The past is never delineated through Gehr‘s film, an unorthodox “city symphony” composed of largely static compositions of West...

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.