About

Known credits:
101
Birthday:
1941-01-01
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Ernie Gehr

Overview

"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

Acting
2010 Chambers of Time Actor (Voice) N/A
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1968 Huge Pupils Actor Himself N/A
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1968 A Portrait of Ernie Gehr Actor Himself N/A
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Directing
2024 Creatures of the Night Directing Director N/A
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2023 Pedestrian Activities Directing Director N/A
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2023 Medicine Cabinet Directing Director N/A
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2023 High-Wire Act Directing Director N/A
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2023 What’s Up! Directing Director N/A
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2023 Carroll Gardens Directing Director N/A
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2022 Lisbon Views Directing Director N/A
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2021 Back in the Park Directing Director N/A
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2021 Undertow Directing Director N/A
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2021 Floating Particles Directing Director N/A
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2020 Mirror of Dreams Directing Director N/A
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2020 Flying Over Brooklyn Directing Director N/A
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2020 New York Central Directing Director N/A
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2020 Through the Hoops of Time Directing Director N/A
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2020 Delirium Directing Director N/A
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2019 Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II Directing Director N/A
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2018 Construction Sight Directing Director N/A
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2018 Circling Essex Crossing Directing Director N/A
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2018 Aproposessexstreetmarket Directing Director N/A
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2017 Autumn Directing Director N/A
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2017 Street Scenes Directing Director N/A
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2016 Sunday in Paris Directing Director N/A
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2016 Sensations of Light, #7 Directing Director N/A
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2016 For the Birds Directing Director N/A
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2015 Bon Voyage Directing Director N/A
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2015 Better than Ever Directing Director N/A
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2015 Carnival of Shadows Directing Director N/A
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2015 Transport Directing Director N/A
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2015 In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay) Directing Director N/A
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2014 Auto-Collider XX Directing Director N/A
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2014 A Commuter's Life (What a Life!) Directing Director N/A
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2013 As If Directing Director N/A
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2013 The Quiet Car Directing Director N/A
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2013 Winter Morning Directing Director N/A
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2013 Brooklyn Series Directing Director N/A
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2013 Auto-Collider XVIII Directing Director N/A
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2013 Photographic Phantoms Directing Director N/A
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2012 Auto-Collider XV Directing Director N/A
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2012 Work in Progress Directing Director N/A
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2012 20 Little Films Directing Director N/A
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2012 Departure Directing Director N/A
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2011 Brewster, MA Directing Director N/A
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2011 Crystal Palace Directing Director 59
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2010 Picture Taking Directing Director N/A
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2010 Auto-Collider Directing Director N/A
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2010 Surveillance Directing Director N/A
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2010 Mist Directing Director 59
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2010 Chambers of Time Directing Director N/A
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2010 Thank You for Visiting Directing Director N/A
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2009 Waterfront Follies Directing Director N/A
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2009 ABRACADABRA Directing Director N/A
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2009 Hurry Up Henrietta Directing Director N/A
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2008 New York Lantern Directing Director N/A
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2007 Shadow Directing Director N/A
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2007 Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 Directing Director N/A
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2006 Before the Olympics Directing Director N/A
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2006 The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench) Directing Director N/A
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2005 Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows Directing Director N/A
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2004 The Astronomer's Dream Directing Director N/A
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2004 The Collector Directing Director N/A
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2004 Noon Time Activities Directing Director N/A
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2004 Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière) Directing Director N/A
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2004 Greene Street Directing Director N/A
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2004 Essex Street Market Directing Director N/A
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2004 Precarious Garden Directing Director N/A
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2003 Carte de Visite Directing Director 59
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2003 Passage Directing Director N/A
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2002 Cotton Candy Directing Director N/A
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2002 Modern Navigation Directing Director N/A
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2002 City Directing Director N/A
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2001 Glider Directing Director N/A
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1997 For Daniel Directing Director N/A
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1992 Side/Walk/Shuttle Directing Director 59
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1991 Rear Window Directing Director N/A
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1991 This Side of Paradise Directing Director N/A
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1985 Signal - Germany on the Air Directing Director N/A
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1981 Along Brighton Beach Avenue Directing Director N/A
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1981 Mirage Directing Director N/A
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1977 Untitled Directing Director N/A
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1976 Table Directing Director 59
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1975 Behind the Scenes Directing Director N/A
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1974 Shift Directing Director N/A
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1974 Eureka Directing Director 59
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1972 Lisa and Suzanne Directing Director N/A
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1971 Still Directing Director 58
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1970 Serene Velocity Directing Director 58
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1970 History Directing Director 59
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1970 Field Directing Director N/A
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1969 Reverberation Directing Director N/A
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1969 Transparency Directing Director N/A
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1968 Wait Directing Director 59
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1968 Morning Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2010 Thank You for Visiting Writing Writer N/A
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2010 Auto-Collider Writing Writer N/A
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1970 Field Writing Writer N/A
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Camera
1977 Untitled Camera Camera Operator N/A
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Crew
2007 Water Spell Crew Thanks N/A
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Editing
1977 Untitled Editing Editor N/A
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