Biography
"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)
Filmography
all 97
Movies 97
Director 92
self 4
Carroll Gardens (2023)
What’s Up! (2023)
High-Wire Act (2023)
Creatures of the Night (2023)
Pedestrian Activities (2023)
Lisbon Views (2022)
Medicine Cabinet (2022)
Back in the Park (2021)
Undertow (2021)
Floating Particles (2021)
Mirror of Dreams (2020)
Flying Over Brooklyn (2020)
Through the Hoops of Time (2020)
Delirium (2020)
New York Central (2020)
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II (2019)
Construction Sight (2018)
Circling Essex Crossing (2018)
Aproposessexstreetmarket (2018)
Aproposessexstreetmarket (2018)
Autumn (2017)
Street Scenes (2017)
Sunday in Paris (2016)
Sensations of Light, #7 (2016)
For the Birds (2016)
Bon Voyage (2015)
Better than Ever (2015)
Carnival of Shadows (2015)
Transport (2015)
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay) (2015)
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!) (2014)
Auto-Collider XX (2014)
As If (2013)
Winter Morning (2013)
Brooklyn Series (2013)
Photographic Phantoms (2013)
Auto-Collider XVIII (2013)
Auto-Collider XV (2012)
Work in Progress (2012)
20 Little Films (2012)
Departure (2012)
Brewster, MA (2011)
Crystal Palace (2011)
Picture Taking (2010)
Chambers of Time (2010)
Mist (2010)
Auto-Collider (2010)
Thank You for Visiting (2010)
Surveillance (2010)
Waterfront Follies (2009)
Hurry Up Henrietta (2009)
ABRACADABRA (2009)
New York Lantern (2008)
Shadow (2007)
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 (2007)
Water Spell (2007)
Before the Olympics (2006)
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench) (2006)
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows (2005)
The Astronomer's Dream (2004)
The Collector (2004)
Noon Time Activities (2004)
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière) (2004)
Greene Street (2004)
Essex Street Market (2004)
Precarious Garden (2004)
Carte de Visite (2003)
Passage (2003)
Cotton Candy (2002)
Modern Navigation (2002)
City (2002)
Glider (2001)
Secrets of the Shadow World (1999)
For Daniel (1997)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
Rear Window (1991)
This Side of Paradise (1991)
Return to the House of Pain (1988)
Signal - Germany on the Air (1985)
Along Brighton Beach Avenue (1981)
Mirage (1981)
Untitled (1977)
Table (1976)
Behind the Scenes (1975)
Shift (1974)
Eureka (1974)
Lisa and Suzanne (1972)
Serene Velocity (1970)
History (1970)
Field (1970)
Reverberation (1969)
Still (1969)
Transparency (1969)
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr (1968)
Wait (1968)
Huge Pupils (1968)
Morning (1968)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1943-07-20 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceMilwaukee, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsMaya Deren Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
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