Movies

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

16mm film (black and white, silent)

By Rail, To Boston (2024) 17 min. Color. Sound.

"The radio waves could be the breeze stirring the trees. The pedestrians swim and bob among these visceral transmissions; the total image seems...

Images of a city, superimposed.

Better than ever. 'They’re dancing better than ever,' commented Ernie Gehr's wife Myrel Glick on seeing how he brought these girls' dance into...

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 8 min.

The 20th installment of the Auto-Collider series. "In 2005 we were still living in San Francisco, we were there for 18 and a half years, I really...

"One of two new digital works in the all-Gehr program, Morse Code is not only clever; it's unexpectedly funny. Having now spent several years...

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 6 min.

Sounds and images were recorded at the Polish flea-market, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, autumn 1989, a few days before the Berlin Wall came down. An...

2020. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 24 min.

Inside/out at whisper speed, symmetries in locomotion churn soft and feathery floating like a dream. A nocture before nightfall. -M.M.

Film by Ernie Gehr

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.

2023. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. Digital. 16 min.

In New York Lantern and Photographic Phantoms, a new narrative lyricism and political outspokenness enters Gehr’s cinema, haunted now by...

“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...

Ernie Gehr's short, silent film [...] shows two young girls, almost children still, on a New York street. Both wear blue, one washed out blue jeans,...

This film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.