Ernie Gehr
Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1941
Place of birth: —
"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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Filmography
98 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Sincere Vacancy
2026NR
By Rail, To Boston
2024
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South Station
2024
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Creatures of the Night
2024
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Carroll Gardens
2024
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Pedestrian Activities
2023
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Medicine Cabinet
2023
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What’s Up!
2023
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High-Wire Act
2023
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Lisbon Views
2022
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Undertow
2021
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Back in the Park
2021
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Floating Particles
2021
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Mirror of Dreams
2020
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Flying Over Brooklyn
2020
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New York Central
2020
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Through the Hoops of Time
2020
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Delirium
2020
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Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2019
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Construction Sight
2018
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Circling Essex Crossing
2018
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Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018
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Autumn
2017
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Street Scenes
2017
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Sunday in Paris
2016
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Sensations of Light, #7
2016
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For the Birds
2016
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Bon Voyage
2015
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Better than Ever
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Carnival of Shadows
2015
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Transport
2015
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In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015
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Auto-Collider XX
2014
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A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
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As If
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The Quiet Car
2013
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Winter Morning
2013
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Brooklyn Series
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Auto-Collider XVIII
2013
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Photographic Phantoms
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Auto-Collider XV
2012NR
Work in Progress
2012
6.0
20 Little Films
2012
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Departure
2012
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Brewster, MA
2011
10.0
Crystal Palace
2011
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Picture Taking
2010
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Chambers of Time
20106.5
Mist
2010
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Auto-Collider
2010
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Thank You for Visiting
2010
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Surveillance
2010
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Waterfront Follies
2009
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ABRACADABRA
2009NR
Hurry Up Henrietta
2009NR
New York Lantern
2008
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Shadow
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Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007
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Water Spell
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Before the Olympics
2006NR
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2006
6.0
Clear Blue Sky
2006
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Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2005NR
The Astronomer's Dream
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The Collector
2004
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Greene Street
2004
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Noon Time Activities
2004
7.0
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2004
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Precarious Garden
2004
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Essex Street Market
2004
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Passage
2003
8.0
Cotton Candy
2002
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Modern Navigation
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City
2002
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Glider
2001
9.0
For Daniel
1997
6.7
Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992
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Rear Window
1991
8.0
This Side of Paradise
1991
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Signal - Germany on the Air
1985
7.0
Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981
9.0
Mirage
1981
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Untitled
1977
6.7
Table
1976
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Behind the Scenes
1975
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Shift
1974
5.7
Eureka
1974
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Lisa and Suzanne
1972
4.0
Still
1971
4.5
Serene Velocity
1970
7.0
History
1970
10.0
Field
1970
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Transparency
1969
9.0
Reverberation
1969
5.2
Wait
1968
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Huge Pupils
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A Portrait of Ernie Gehr
1968
10.0
Morning
1968