Ernie Gehr
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1941 (age 85)
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)
Known For
Filmography
Carroll Gardens
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Creatures of the Night
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By Rail, To Boston
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South Station
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What’s Up!
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High-Wire Act
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Medicine Cabinet
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Pedestrian Activities
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Lisbon Views
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Floating Particles
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Undertow
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Back in the Park
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New York Central
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Mirror of Dreams
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Through the Hoops of Time
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Delirium
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Flying Over Brooklyn
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Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
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Construction Sight
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Aproposessexstreetmarket
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Circling Essex Crossing
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Autumn
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Street Scenes
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For the Birds
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Sensations of Light, #7
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Sunday in Paris
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Carnival of Shadows
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Better than Ever
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Bon Voyage
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In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
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Transport
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Auto-Collider XX
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A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
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Auto-Collider XVIII
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Photographic Phantoms
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As If
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Brooklyn Series
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The Quiet Car
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Winter Morning
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Departure
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Auto-Collider XV
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20 Little Films
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Work in Progress
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Brewster, MA
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Crystal Palace
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Mist
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Thank You for Visiting
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Auto-Collider
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Chambers of Time
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Picture Taking
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Surveillance
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ABRACADABRA
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Hurry Up Henrietta
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Waterfront Follies
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New York Lantern
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Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
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Shadow
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The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
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Before the Olympics
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Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
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Precarious Garden
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Essex Street Market
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The Astronomer's Dream
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Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
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Noon Time Activities
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Greene Street
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The Collector
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Passage
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Cotton Candy
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Modern Navigation
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City
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Glider
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For Daniel
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Side/Walk/Shuttle
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Rear Window
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This Side of Paradise
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Signal - Germany on the Air
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Along Brighton Beach Avenue
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Mirage
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Untitled
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Table
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Behind the Scenes
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Eureka
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Shift
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Lisa and Suzanne
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Still
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Serene Velocity
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History
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Field
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Reverberation
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Transparency
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Wait
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Morning
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