Ernie Gehr

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-01-01 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

-

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 a...

Acting

1968

Huge Pupils

as Himself

2010

Production

1992

1970

Serene Velocity

as Director

1968

Wait

as Director

1976

Table

as Director

2013

2014

Auto-Collider XX

as Director

1970

History

as Director

1971

Still

as Director

2003

Carte de Visite

as Director

1968

Morning

as Director

2003

Passage

as Director

2020

New York Central

as Director

1974

Eureka

as Director

1969

Reverberation

as Director

2021

2021

Undertow

as Director

2011

Brewster, MA

as Director

2020

Mirror of Dreams

as Director

2021

Back in the Park

as Director

1977

Untitled

as Camera Operator

1977

Untitled

as Editor

1977

Untitled

as Director

1969

Transparency

as Director

2009

ABRACADABRA

as Director

2012

Departure

as Director

2011

Crystal Palace

as Director

2010

Mist

as Director

1991

Rear Window

as Director

2009

2015

1970

Field

as Director

2010

2010

Auto-Collider

as Writer

1970

Field

as Writer

2010

Auto-Collider

as Director

1972

Lisa and Suzanne

as Director

2015

Better than Ever

as Director

2015

Bon Voyage

as Director

2008

New York Lantern

as Director

2013

1974

Shift

as Director

2009

2016

For the Birds

as Director

2004

2012

Auto-Collider XV

as Director

2012

20 Little Films

as Director

2023

What’s Up!

as Director

2022

Lisbon Views

as Director

2023

High-Wire Act

as Director

2024

Carroll Gardens

as Director

2010

Chambers of Time

as Director

2012

Work in Progress

as Director

2020

Delirium

as Director

2024

2023

Medicine Cabinet

as Director

2023

2013

As If

as Director

2002

Cotton Candy

as Director

2007

Water Spell

as Thanks

2017

Autumn

as Director

2010

Picture Taking

as Director

2015

Transport

as Director

2013

Brooklyn Series

as Director

2013

The Quiet Car

as Director

2004

1981

Mirage

as Director

2017

Street Scenes

as Director

2010

Surveillance

as Director

1975

1991

1997

For Daniel

as Director

2004

2001

Glider

as Director

2002

2004

2004

Greene Street

as Director

2020

2006

2018

2016

Sunday in Paris

as Director

2002

City

as Director

2007

Shadow

as Director

2004

The Collector

as Director

2013

Winter Morning

as Director

2024

2024

South Station

as Director

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