Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 01, 1941
Credits
99 titles
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)
Known For
Filmography
Sincere Vacancy
Original Concept
South Station
Director
By Rail, To Boston
Director
Creatures of the Night
Director
Carroll Gardens
Director
Pedestrian Activities
Director
Medicine Cabinet
Director
High-Wire Act
Director
What’s Up!
Director
Lisbon Views
Director
Undertow
Director
Back in the Park
Director
Floating Particles
Director
Mirror of Dreams
Director
Flying Over Brooklyn
Director
Delirium
Director
Through the Hoops of Time
Director
New York Central
Director
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
Director
Construction Sight
Director
Circling Essex Crossing
Director
Aproposessexstreetmarket
Director
Autumn
Director
Street Scenes
Director
Sunday in Paris
Director
Sensations of Light, #7
Director
For the Birds
Director
Bon Voyage
Director
Better than Ever
Director
Carnival of Shadows
Director
Transport
Director
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
Director
Auto-Collider XX
Director
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
Director
As If
Director
The Quiet Car
Director
Winter Morning
Director
Brooklyn Series
Director
Photographic Phantoms
Director
Auto-Collider XVIII
Director
Auto-Collider XV
Director
Work in Progress
Director
20 Little Films
Director
Departure
Director
Crystal Palace
Director
Brewster, MA
Director
Picture Taking
Director
Auto-Collider
Writer
Surveillance
Director
Mist
Director