Directing
Ernie Gehr
EN, XX, ZH cinema · 99 credits
Born
1 January 1941 (age 85)
"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
What’s Up!
Director
High-Wire Act
Director
Lisbon Views
Director
Undertow
Director
Delirium
Director
Autumn
Director
Street Scenes
Director
For the Birds
Director
Bon Voyage
Director
Transport
Director
As If
2013
As If
Director
Winter Morning
Director
Departure
Director
20 Little Films
Director
Brewster, MA
Director
Crystal Palace
Director
Chambers of Time
as (Voice), Director
Mist
2010
Mist
Director
Thank You for Visiting
Writer, Director
Auto-Collider
Writer, Director
Picture Taking
Director
Surveillance
Director
ABRACADABRA
Director
Water Spell
Thanks
Shadow
Director
Greene Street
Director
Passage
Director
Cotton Candy
Director
City
2002
City
Director
Glider
Director
For Daniel
Director
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Director
Rear Window
Director
Mirage
Director
Untitled
Camera Operator, Editor, Director
Table
Director
Eureka
Director
Shift
Director
Still
Director
Serene Velocity
Director
History
Director
Field
Director, Writer
Reverberation
Director
Transparency
Director
Huge Pupils
as Himself
Wait
Director
Morning
Director