Movies

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

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

Abstract short featuring mirrored images.

"What drives the collector? Textures. Colors. Dust. Phantasmagoric memories and associations. A scattering. The present. The passage of time. Sleep."...

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

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

"Serene Velocity" remade at USF Tampa in Cooper Hall

Ernie working his magic.

“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...

"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious,...

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception...

"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place...

A meditation on silence, vanishings, and phantoms of light.

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...

"a five-minute film of the view west across the Soho street to a brick building. Gehr sat there from one day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. and...

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...

The ever changing Lower East Side.