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

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

2023

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

2022

Lisbon Views ... (Director)

2021

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

New York Lantern ... (Director)

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

Passage ... (Director)

2002

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

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

1977

Untitled ... (Director)

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)
History ... (Director)
Field ... (Director)

1969

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

1968

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