Ernie Gehr
Directing
"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)
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movieSouth Station
2024
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movieCreatures of the Night
2024
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movieCarroll Gardens
2024
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moviePedestrian Activities
2023
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movieMedicine Cabinet
2023
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movieWhat’s Up!
2023
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movieHigh-Wire Act
2023
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movieLisbon Views
2022
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movieUndertow
2021
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movieBack in the Park
2021
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movieFloating Particles
2021
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movieMirror of Dreams
2020
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movieFlying Over Brooklyn
2020
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movieNew York Central
2020
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movieDelirium
2020
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movieConstruction Sight
2018
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movieCircling Essex Crossing
2018
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movieAutumn
2017
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movieStreet Scenes
2017
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movieSunday in Paris
2016
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movieSensations of Light, #7
2016
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movieFor the Birds
2016
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movieBon Voyage
2015
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movieBetter than Ever
2015
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movieTransport
2015
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movieAuto-Collider XX
2014
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As If
2013
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movieWinter Morning
2013
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movieBrooklyn Series
2013
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moviePhotographic Phantoms
2013
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movie20 Little Films
2012
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movieDeparture
2012
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movieBrewster, MA
2011
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movieCrystal Palace
2011
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moviePicture Taking
2010
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Mist
2010
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movieThank You for Visiting
2010
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movieAuto-Collider
2010
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movieChambers of Time
2010
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movieSurveillance
2010
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movieWaterfront Follies
2009
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movieABRACADABRA
2009
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movieShadow
2007
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movieGreene Street
2004
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movieNoon Time Activities
2004
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moviePrecarious Garden
2004
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movieEssex Street Market
2004
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moviePassage
2003
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movieCotton Candy
2002
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movieModern Navigation
2002
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City
2002
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movieGlider
2001
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movieFor Daniel
1997
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movieSide/Walk/Shuttle
1992
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movieRear Window
1991
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movieThis Side of Paradise
1991
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movieMirage
1981
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movieUntitled
1977
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movieTable
1976
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movieBehind the Scenes
1975
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movieShift
1974
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movieEureka
1974
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movieLisa and Suzanne
1972
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movieStill
1971
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movieSerene Velocity
1970
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movieHistory
1970
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movieField
1970
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movieTransparency
1969
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movieReverberation
1969
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movieWait
1968
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movieMorning
1968
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movieWater Spell
2007
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movieClear Blue Sky
2006
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movieUntitled
1977
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movieUntitled
1977
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