Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr

Directing
Born 1941-01-01 97 credits
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"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)
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Directing 59 credits
20 Little Films
20 Little Films
2012 · Director
Serene Velocity
Serene Velocity
1970 · Director
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace
2011 · Director
Lisbon Views
Lisbon Views
2022 · Director
Precarious Garden
Precarious Garden
2004 · Director
Modern Navigation
Modern Navigation
2002 · Director
Autumn
Autumn
2017 · Director
Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens
2024 · Director
As If
As If
2013 · Director
Construction Sight
Construction Sight
2018 · Director
Aproposessexstreetmarket
Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018 · Director
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage
2015 · Director
Photographic Phantoms
Photographic Phantoms
2013 · Director
Greene Street
Greene Street
2004 · Director
Floating Particles
Floating Particles
2021 · Director
Untitled
Untitled
1977 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
City
City
2002 · Director
Undertow
Undertow
2021 · Director
ABRACADABRA
ABRACADABRA
2009 · Director
Waterfront Follies
Waterfront Follies
2009 · Director
Auto-Collider
Auto-Collider
2010 · Director, Writer
The Collector
The Collector
2004 · Director
Brooklyn Series
Brooklyn Series
2013 · Director
Mirage
Mirage
1981 · Director
Street Scenes
Street Scenes
2017 · Director
Morning
Morning
1968 · Director
Field
Field
1970 · Director, Writer
Rear Window
Rear Window
1991 · Director
Departure
Departure
2012 · Director
Eureka
Eureka
1974 · Director
Wait
Wait
1968 · Director
Shift
Shift
1974 · Director
Mist
Mist
2010 · Director
Reverberation
Reverberation
1969 · Director
Medicine Cabinet
Medicine Cabinet
2023 · Director
Surveillance
Surveillance
2010 · Director
Shadow
Shadow
2007 · Director
Passage
Passage
2003 · Director
Pedestrian Activities
Pedestrian Activities
2023 · Director
Cotton Candy
Cotton Candy
2002 · Director
Brewster, MA
Brewster, MA
2011 · Director
Winter Morning
Winter Morning
2013 · Director
Transparency
Transparency
1969 · Director
Better than Ever
Better than Ever
2015 · Director
For Daniel
For Daniel
1997 · Director
Table
Table
1976 · Director
Transport
Transport
2015 · Director
Delirium
Delirium
2020 · Director
Glider
Glider
2001 · Director
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2004 · Director
South Station
South Station
2024 · Director
History
History
1970 · Director
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992 · Director
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2005 · Director
Picture Taking
Picture Taking
2010 · Director
Through the Hoops of Time
Through the Hoops of Time
2020 · Director
Signal - Germany on the Air
Signal - Germany on the Air
1985 · Director
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2019 · Director
The Quiet Car
The Quiet Car
2013 · Director
Other credits 2 credits
Water Spell
Water Spell
2007 · Thanks
Untitled
Untitled
1977 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Writing 2 credits
Auto-Collider
Auto-Collider
2010 · Director, Writer
Field
Field
1970 · Director, Writer
Acting 1 credit
Untitled
Untitled
1977 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
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