Ernie Gehr

Directing·Jan 1, 1941

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"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)

Film	Credit
BBy Rail, To Boston2024 · Director	Director
South Station2024 · Director	Director
Creatures of the Night2024 · Director	Director
Carroll Gardens2024 · Director	Director
Pedestrian Activities2023 · Director	Director
Medicine Cabinet2023 · Director	Director
What’s Up!2023 · Director	Director
High-Wire Act2023 · Director	Director
Lisbon Views2022 · Director	Director
Undertow2021 · Director	Director
Back in the Park2021 · Director	Director
Floating Particles2021 · Director	Director
Mirror of Dreams2020 · Director	Director
Flying Over Brooklyn2020 · Director	Director
New York Central2020 · Director	Director
Through the Hoops of Time2020 · Director	Director
Delirium2020 · Director	Director
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II2019 · Director	Director
Construction Sight2018 · Director	Director
Circling Essex Crossing2018 · Director	Director
Aproposessexstreetmarket2018 · Director	Director
Autumn2017 · Director	Director
Street Scenes2017 · Director	Director
Sunday in Paris2016 · Director	Director
Sensations of Light, #72016 · Director	Director
For the Birds2016 · Director	Director
Better than Ever2015 · Director	Director
Bon Voyage2015 · Director	Director
CCarnival of Shadows2015 · Director	Director
Transport2015 · Director	Director
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)2015 · Director	Director
Auto-Collider XX2014 · Director	Director
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)2014 · Director	Director
AAs If2013 · Director	Director
TThe Quiet Car2013 · Director	Director
Winter Morning2013 · Director	Director
Brooklyn Series2013 · Director	Director
AAuto-Collider XVIII2013 · Director	Director
Photographic Phantoms2013 · Director	Director
AAuto-Collider XV2012 · Director	Director
WWork in Progress2012 · Director	Director
20 Little Films2012 · Director	Director
Departure2012 · Director	Director
Brewster, MA2011 · Director	Director
Crystal Palace2011 · Director	Director
Picture Taking2010 · Director	Director
Chambers of Time2010 · (Voice), Director	(Voice), Director
MMist2010 · Director	Director