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Ernie Gehr (b. 1941)

Born:
January 1, 1941

Biography from TheMovieDB

"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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Film Performances

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
1977  Untitled

Director:
1968  Morning
1968  Wait
1969  Reverberation
1969  Transparency
1970  Field
1970  History
1970  Serene Velocity
1971  Still
1972  Lisa and Suzanne
1974  Eureka
1974  Shift
1975  Behind the Scenes
1976  Table
1977  Untitled
1981  Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981  Mirage
1985  Signal - Germany on the Air
1991  Rear Window
1991  This Side of Paradise
1992  Side/Walk/Shuttle
1997  For Daniel
2001  Glider
2002  City
2002  Cotton Candy
2002  Modern Navigation
2003  Carte de Visite
2003  Passage
2004  Essex Street Market
2004  Greene Street
2004  Noon Time Activities
2004  Precarious Garden
2004  The Astronomer's Dream
2004  The Collector
2004  Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2005  Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2006  Before the Olympics
2006  The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2007  Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007  Shadow
2008  New York Lantern
2009  ABRACADABRA
2009  Hurry Up Henrietta
2009  Waterfront Follies
2010  Auto-Collider
2010  Chambers of Time
2010  Mist
2010  Picture Taking
2010  Surveillance
2010  Thank You for Visiting
2011  Brewster, MA
2011  Crystal Palace
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Auto-Collider XV
2012  Departure
2012  Work in Progress
2013  As If
2013  Auto-Collider XVIII
2013  Brooklyn Series
2013  Photographic Phantoms
2013  The Quiet Car
2013  Winter Morning
2014  A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014  Auto-Collider XX
2015  Better than Ever
2015  Bon Voyage
2015  Carnival of Shadows
2015  In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015  Transport
2016  For the Birds
2016  Sensations of Light, #7
2016  Sunday in Paris
2017  Autumn
2017  Street Scenes
2018  Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018  Circling Essex Crossing
2018  Construction Sight
2019  Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2020  Delirium
2020  Flying Over Brooklyn
2020  Mirror of Dreams
2020  New York Central
2020  Through the Hoops of Time
2021  Back in the Park
2021  Floating Particles
2021  Undertow
2022  Lisbon Views
2023  High-Wire Act
2023  Medicine Cabinet
2023  Pedestrian Activities
2023  What’s Up!
2024  By Rail, To Boston
2024  Carroll Gardens
2024  Creatures of the Night
2024  South Station

Editor:
1968  Morning
1968  Wait
1969  Reverberation
1969  Transparency
1970  Field
1970  History
1970  Serene Velocity
1971  Still
1972  Lisa and Suzanne
1974  Eureka
1974  Shift
1975  Behind the Scenes
1976  Table
1977  Untitled
1981  Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981  Mirage
1985  Signal - Germany on the Air
1991  Rear Window
1991  This Side of Paradise
1992  Side/Walk/Shuttle
1997  For Daniel
2001  Glider
2002  City
2002  Cotton Candy
2002  Modern Navigation
2003  Carte de Visite
2003  Passage
2004  Essex Street Market
2004  Greene Street
2004  Noon Time Activities
2004  Precarious Garden
2004  The Astronomer's Dream
2004  The Collector
2004  Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2005  Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2006  Before the Olympics
2006  The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2007  Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007  Shadow
2008  New York Lantern
2009  ABRACADABRA
2009  Hurry Up Henrietta
2009  Waterfront Follies
2010  Auto-Collider
2010  Chambers of Time
2010  Mist
2010  Picture Taking
2010  Surveillance
2010  Thank You for Visiting
2011  Brewster, MA
2011  Crystal Palace
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Auto-Collider XV
2012  Departure
2012  Work in Progress
2013  As If
2013  Auto-Collider XVIII
2013  Brooklyn Series
2013  Photographic Phantoms
2013  The Quiet Car
2013  Winter Morning
2014  A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014  Auto-Collider XX
2015  Better than Ever
2015  Bon Voyage
2015  Carnival of Shadows
2015  In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015  Transport
2016  For the Birds
2016  Sensations of Light, #7
2016  Sunday in Paris
2017  Autumn
2017  Street Scenes
2018  Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018  Circling Essex Crossing
2018  Construction Sight
2019  Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2020  Delirium
2020  Flying Over Brooklyn
2020  Mirror of Dreams
2020  New York Central
2020  Through the Hoops of Time
2021  Back in the Park
2021  Floating Particles
2021  Undertow
2022  Lisbon Views
2023  High-Wire Act
2023  Medicine Cabinet
2023  Pedestrian Activities
2023  What’s Up!
2024  By Rail, To Boston
2024  Carroll Gardens
2024  Creatures of the Night
2024  South Station

Thanks:
1968  Morning
1968  Wait
1969  Reverberation
1969  Transparency
1970  Field
1970  History
1970  Serene Velocity
1971  Still
1972  Lisa and Suzanne
1974  Eureka
1974  Shift
1975  Behind the Scenes
1976  Table
1977  Untitled
1981  Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981  Mirage
1985  Signal - Germany on the Air
1991  Rear Window
1991  This Side of Paradise
1992  Side/Walk/Shuttle
1997  For Daniel
2001  Glider
2002  City
2002  Cotton Candy
2002  Modern Navigation
2003  Carte de Visite
2003  Passage
2004  Essex Street Market
2004  Greene Street
2004  Noon Time Activities
2004  Precarious Garden
2004  The Astronomer's Dream
2004  The Collector
2004  Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2005  Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2006  Before the Olympics
2006  The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2007  Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007  Shadow
2007  Water Spell
2008  New York Lantern
2009  ABRACADABRA
2009  Hurry Up Henrietta
2009  Waterfront Follies
2010  Auto-Collider
2010  Chambers of Time
2010  Mist
2010  Picture Taking
2010  Surveillance
2010  Thank You for Visiting
2011  Brewster, MA
2011  Crystal Palace
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Auto-Collider XV
2012  Departure
2012  Work in Progress
2013  As If
2013  Auto-Collider XVIII
2013  Brooklyn Series
2013  Photographic Phantoms
2013  The Quiet Car
2013  Winter Morning
2014  A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014  Auto-Collider XX
2015  Better than Ever
2015  Bon Voyage
2015  Carnival of Shadows
2015  In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015  Transport
2016  For the Birds
2016  Sensations of Light, #7
2016  Sunday in Paris
2017  Autumn
2017  Street Scenes
2018  Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018  Circling Essex Crossing
2018  Construction Sight
2019  Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2020  Delirium
2020  Flying Over Brooklyn
2020  Mirror of Dreams
2020  New York Central
2020  Through the Hoops of Time
2021  Back in the Park
2021  Floating Particles
2021  Undertow
2022  Lisbon Views
2023  High-Wire Act
2023  Medicine Cabinet
2023  Pedestrian Activities
2023  What’s Up!
2024  By Rail, To Boston
2024  Carroll Gardens
2024  Creatures of the Night
2024  South Station

Writer:
1968  Morning
1968  Wait
1969  Reverberation
1969  Transparency
1970  Field
1970  History
1970  Serene Velocity
1971  Still
1972  Lisa and Suzanne
1974  Eureka
1974  Shift
1975  Behind the Scenes
1976  Table
1977  Untitled
1981  Along Brighton Beach Avenue
1981  Mirage
1985  Signal - Germany on the Air
1991  Rear Window
1991  This Side of Paradise
1992  Side/Walk/Shuttle
1997  For Daniel
2001  Glider
2002  City
2002  Cotton Candy
2002  Modern Navigation
2003  Carte de Visite
2003  Passage
2004  Essex Street Market
2004  Greene Street
2004  Noon Time Activities
2004  Precarious Garden
2004  The Astronomer's Dream
2004  The Collector
2004  Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
2005  Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
2006  Before the Olympics
2006  The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
2007  Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
2007  Shadow
2007  Water Spell
2008  New York Lantern
2009  ABRACADABRA
2009  Hurry Up Henrietta
2009  Waterfront Follies
2010  Auto-Collider
2010  Chambers of Time
2010  Mist
2010  Picture Taking
2010  Surveillance
2010  Thank You for Visiting
2011  Brewster, MA
2011  Crystal Palace
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Auto-Collider XV
2012  Departure
2012  Work in Progress
2013  As If
2013  Auto-Collider XVIII
2013  Brooklyn Series
2013  Photographic Phantoms
2013  The Quiet Car
2013  Winter Morning
2014  A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
2014  Auto-Collider XX
2015  Better than Ever
2015  Bon Voyage
2015  Carnival of Shadows
2015  In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
2015  Transport
2016  For the Birds
2016  Sensations of Light, #7
2016  Sunday in Paris
2017  Autumn
2017  Street Scenes
2018  Aproposessexstreetmarket
2018  Circling Essex Crossing
2018  Construction Sight
2019  Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
2020  Delirium
2020  Flying Over Brooklyn
2020  Mirror of Dreams
2020  New York Central
2020  Through the Hoops of Time
2021  Back in the Park
2021  Floating Particles
2021  Undertow
2022  Lisbon Views
2023  High-Wire Act
2023  Medicine Cabinet
2023  Pedestrian Activities
2023  What’s Up!
2024  By Rail, To Boston
2024  Carroll Gardens
2024  Creatures of the Night
2024  South Station

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