Ernie Gehr

Born: 1941-01-01

Known For: Directing

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

2024

Carroll Gardens ... (Director)
South Station ... (Director)
Creatures of the Night ... (Director)
By Rail, To Boston ... (Director)

2023

Pedestrian Activities ... (Director)
Medicine Cabinet ... (Director)
High-Wire Act ... (Director)
What’s Up! ... (Director)

2022

Lisbon Views ... (Director)

2021

Undertow ... (Director)
Floating Particles ... (Director)
Back in the Park ... (Director)

2017

Autumn ... (Director)
Street Scenes ... (Director)

2016

Sensations of Light, #7 ... (Director)
For the Birds ... (Director)
Sunday in Paris ... (Director)

2015

Bon Voyage ... (Director)
Transport ... (Director)
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay) ... (Director)
Better than Ever ... (Director)
Carnival of Shadows ... (Director)

2014

A Commuter's Life (What a Life!) ... (Director)
Auto-Collider XX ... (Director)

2013

Winter Morning ... (Director)
Photographic Phantoms ... (Director)
Brooklyn Series ... (Director)
As If ... (Director)
The Quiet Car ... (Director)
Auto-Collider XVIII ... (Director)

2012

Departure ... (Director)
20 Little Films ... (Director)
Work in Progress ... (Director)
Auto-Collider XV ... (Director)

2011

Crystal Palace ... (Director)
Brewster, MA ... (Director)

2010

Auto-Collider ... (Writer)
Surveillance ... (Director)
Mist ... (Director)
Picture Taking ... (Director)
Chambers of Time as (Voice)
Thank You for Visiting ... (Writer)

2009

Waterfront Follies ... (Director)
ABRACADABRA ... (Director)
Hurry Up Henrietta ... (Director)

2008

New York Lantern ... (Director)

2007

Water Spell ... (Thanks)
Shadow ... (Director)
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 ... (Director)

2006

Clear Blue Sky ... (Thanks)
The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench) ... (Director)
Before the Olympics ... (Director)

2005

Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows ... (Director)

2004

Greene Street ... (Director)
The Collector ... (Director)
Precarious Garden ... (Director)
Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière) ... (Director)
Essex Street Market ... (Director)
The Astronomer's Dream ... (Director)
Noon Time Activities ... (Director)

2003

Passage ... (Director)

2002

Modern Navigation ... (Director)
City ... (Director)
Cotton Candy ... (Director)

2001

Glider ... (Director)

1997

For Daniel ... (Director)

1992

Side/Walk/Shuttle ... (Director)

1991

Rear Window ... (Director)
This Side of Paradise ... (Director)

1985

Signal - Germany on the Air ... (Director)

1981

Mirage ... (Director)
Along Brighton Beach Avenue ... (Director)

1977

Untitled ... (Camera Operator)

1976

Table ... (Director)

1975

Behind the Scenes ... (Director)

1974

Eureka ... (Director)
Shift ... (Director)

1972

Lisa and Suzanne ... (Director)

1971

Still ... (Director)

1970

Serene Velocity ... (Director)
Field ... (Writer)
History ... (Director)

1969

Reverberation ... (Director)
Transparency ... (Director)

1968

Morning ... (Director)
Wait ... (Director)
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr as Himself
Huge Pupils as Himself