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
2026
- Sincere Vacancy ... (Original Concept)
2024
- Carroll Gardens ... (Director)
- South Station ... (Director)
- By Rail, To Boston ... (Director)
- Creatures of the Night ... (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)
2020
- Delirium ... (Director)
- Through the Hoops of Time ... (Director)
- Flying Over Brooklyn ... (Director)
- New York Central ... (Director)
- Mirror of Dreams ... (Director)
2019
- Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II ... (Director)
2018
- Construction Sight ... (Director)
- Aproposessexstreetmarket ... (Director)
- Circling Essex Crossing ... (Director)
2017
- Street Scenes ... (Director)
- Autumn ... (Director)
2016
- Sunday in Paris ... (Director)
- Sensations of Light, #7 ... (Director)
- For the Birds ... (Director)
2015
- Bon Voyage ... (Director)
- Transport ... (Director)
- Better than Ever ... (Director)
- In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay) ... (Director)
- Carnival of Shadows ... (Director)
2014
- A Commuter's Life (What a Life!) ... (Director)
- Auto-Collider XX ... (Director)
2013
- Brooklyn Series ... (Director)
- Photographic Phantoms ... (Director)
- Winter Morning ... (Director)
- As If ... (Director)
- The Quiet Car ... (Director)
- Auto-Collider XVIII ... (Director)
2012
- Departure ... (Director)
- 20 Little Films ... (Director)
- Auto-Collider XV ... (Director)
- Work in Progress ... (Director)
2011
- Crystal Palace ... (Director)
- Brewster, MA ... (Director)
2010
- Auto-Collider ... (Writer)
- Surveillance ... (Director)
- Mist ... (Director)
- Picture Taking ... (Director)
- Thank You for Visiting ... (Writer)
- Chambers of Time as (Voice)
2009
- Waterfront Follies ... (Director)
- ABRACADABRA ... (Director)
- Hurry Up Henrietta ... (Director)
2008
- New York Lantern ... (Director)
2007
- Shadow ... (Director)
- Water Spell ... (Thanks)
- Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 ... (Director)
2006
- The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench) ... (Director)
- Before the Olympics ... (Director)
- Clear Blue Sky ... (Thanks)
2005
2004
- Precarious Garden ... (Director)
- The Collector ... (Director)
- Greene Street ... (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
- Birth of a Nation as Self
- 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)
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