Ernie Gehr Movies

Short experimental film featuring a kitchen table shot from various angles through colour filters.

Eureka (1974), which lyrically re-photographs a travelogue shot from a San Francisco streetcar, offers the purest expression of Gehr’s deep...

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Drifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...

The ever changing Lower East Side.

"Before my son was born, friends would ask me "Will you make a baby movie, now?". "Of course not!", I would answer. Yet, right after Daniel was born...

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...

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Silent. Digital. 22 min.

Digital. Screened as a part of MOMA's 'Mechanical Principles' series

Abstract short film.

Gehr replaces the camera lens with a half-spherical piece of plastic and filmed around his apartment, producing bands of color and light.

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

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

"I have a number of doctors that I have to see – getting older and it’s an issue all the time, and they are on the Upper East Side. I...

"[A] view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcock's voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible. The film varies exposure or racks...

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

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

"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of...

“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and...