Ernie Gehr
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-01-01 (84 years old)
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)
Acting
(2010)
Chambers of Time
as (Voice)
(1968)
Huge Pupils
as Himself
(1968)
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr
as Himself
Crew
(2024)
Carroll Gardens
Director
(2024)
Creatures of the Night
Director
(2024)
By Rail, To Boston
Director
(2024)
South Station
Director
(2023)
High-Wire Act
Director
(2023)
What’s Up!
Director
(2023)
Pedestrian Activities
Director
(2023)
Medicine Cabinet
Director
(2022)
Lisbon Views
Director
(2021)
Back in the Park
Director
(2021)
Undertow
Director
(2021)
Floating Particles
Director
(2020)
New York Central
Director
(2020)
Mirror of Dreams
Director
(2020)
Through the Hoops of Time
Director
(2020)
Delirium
Director
(2020)
Flying Over Brooklyn
Director
(2019)
(2018)
Construction Sight
Director
(2018)
Aproposessexstreetmarket
Director
(2018)
Circling Essex Crossing
Director
(2017)
Autumn
Director
(2017)
Street Scenes
Director
(2016)
For the Birds
Director
(2016)
Sensations of Light, #7
Director
(2016)
Sunday in Paris
Director
(2015)
Carnival of Shadows
Director
(2015)
Better than Ever
Director
(2015)
Bon Voyage
Director
(2015)
(2015)
Transport
Director
(2014)
Auto-Collider XX
Director
(2014)
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
Director
(2013)
Auto-Collider XVIII
Director
(2013)
Photographic Phantoms
Director
(2013)
As If
Director
(2013)
Brooklyn Series
Director
(2013)
The Quiet Car
Director
(2013)
Winter Morning
Director
(2012)
Departure
Director
(2012)
Auto-Collider XV
Director
(2012)
20 Little Films
Director
(2012)
Work in Progress
Director
(2011)
Brewster, MA
Director
(2011)
Crystal Palace
Director
(2010)
Mist
Director
(2010)
Auto-Collider
Director, Writer
(2010)
Thank You for Visiting
Director, Writer
(2010)
Chambers of Time
Director
(2010)
Picture Taking
Director
(2010)
Surveillance
Director
(2009)
ABRACADABRA
Director
(2009)
Hurry Up Henrietta
Director
(2009)
Waterfront Follies
Director
(2008)
New York Lantern
Director
(2007)
Water Spell
Thanks
(2007)
Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
Director
(2007)
Shadow
Director
(2006)
Before the Olympics
Director
(2006)
(2005)
(2004)
Precarious Garden
Director
(2004)
Essex Street Market
Director
(2004)
The Astronomer's Dream
Director
(2004)
Noon Time Activities
Director
(2004)
(2004)
Greene Street
Director
(2004)
The Collector
Director
(2003)
Carte de Visite
Director
(2003)
Passage
Director
(2002)
Cotton Candy
Director
(2002)
Modern Navigation
Director
(2002)
City
Director
(2001)
Glider
Director
(1997)
For Daniel
Director
(1992)
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Director
(1991)
Rear Window
Director
(1991)
This Side of Paradise
Director
(1985)
Signal - Germany on the Air
Director
(1981)
Along Brighton Beach Avenue
Director
(1981)
Mirage
Director
(1977)
Untitled
Director, Camera Operator, Editor
(1976)
Table
Director
(1975)
Behind the Scenes
Director
(1974)
Eureka
Director
(1974)
Shift
Director
(1972)
Lisa and Suzanne
Director
(1971)
Still
Director
(1970)
Serene Velocity
Director
(1970)
History
Director
(1970)
Field
Director, Writer
(1969)
Reverberation
Director
(1969)
Transparency
Director
(1968)
Wait
Director
(1968)
Morning
Director