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Ernie Gehr

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)

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

103

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-01-01

Place of Birth

Unknown

Also Known As

Known For

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