Ernie Gehr Movies

Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the...

2022. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 15 min.

"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...

Silence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...

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

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

In this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and...

For about sixty minutes, STILL peers through a New York City street level window, watching the storefronts and windows across the way. People come...

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

A couple waiting in a room.

Film by Ernie Gehr

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

Humor without a banana peel.

Ernie working his magic.

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

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

As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but...

The ever changing Lower East Side.

Abstract short film.

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