Ernie Gehr Movies

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

The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...

“We are confronted with everyday images in a romantic way. If you are patient, you eventually see a deli sign that says ‘Carroll...

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...

"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,...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

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

A 2013 English language avant-garde film directed by Ernie Gehr. The film screened at The New York Film Festival in 2013.

Avant-garde work by Ernie Gehr.

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.

South Station (2024) 19 min. Color. Sound.

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

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

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

“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr

By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.

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...

Images of a city, superimposed.

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

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