Ernie Gehr

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)

Directed

1. Serene Velocity (1970) — Director
2. Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992) — Director
3. Wait (1968) — Director
4. Eureka (1974) — Director
5. Table (1976) — Director
6. Mist (2010) — Director
7. Still (1971) — Director
8. History (1970) — Director
9. Morning (1968) — Director
10. Reverberation (1969) — Director
11. Transparency (1969) — Director
12. Crystal Palace (2011) — Director
13. Along Brighton Beach Avenue (1981) — Director
14. Field (1970) — Director
15. Cotton Candy (2002) — Director
16. Mirage (1981) — Director
17. This Side of Paradise (1991) — Director
18. For Daniel (1997) — Director
19. Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière) (2004) — Director
20. Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 (2007) — Director
21. Auto-Collider XVIII (2013) — Director
22. Auto-Collider XX (2014) — Director
23. Passage (2003) — Director
24. New York Central (2020) — Director
25. Signal - Germany on the Air (1985) — Director
26. Floating Particles (2021) — Director
27. Undertow (2021) — Director
28. Brewster, MA (2011) — Director
29. Mirror of Dreams (2020) — Director
30. Back in the Park (2021) — Director
31. Untitled (1977) — Director
32. ABRACADABRA (2009) — Director
33. Departure (2012) — Director
34. Rear Window (1991) — Director
35. Hurry Up Henrietta (2009) — Director
36. Carnival of Shadows (2015) — Director
37. Thank You for Visiting (2010) — Director
38. Auto-Collider (2010) — Director
39. Lisa and Suzanne (1972) — Director
40. Better than Ever (2015) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Huge Pupils (1968) — Himself
2. A Portrait of Ernie Gehr (1968) — Himself
3. Chambers of Time (2010) — (Voice)