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Ernie Gehr
"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 Bra…
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"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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2026
Sincere Vacancy
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2024
South Station
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2024
By Rail, To Boston
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2024
Creatures of the Night
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2024
Carroll Gardens
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2023
Pedestrian Activities
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2023
Medicine Cabinet
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2023
High-Wire Act
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2023
What’s Up!
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2022
Lisbon Views
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2021
Undertow
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2021
Back in the Park
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2021
Floating Particles
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2020
Mirror of Dreams
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2020
Flying Over Brooklyn
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2020
Delirium
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2020
Through the Hoops of Time
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2020
New York Central
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2019
Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
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2018
Construction Sight
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2018
Circling Essex Crossing
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2018
Aproposessexstreetmarket
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2017
Autumn
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2017
Street Scenes
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2016
Sunday in Paris
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2016
Sensations of Light, #7
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2016
For the Birds
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2015
Bon Voyage
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2015
Better than Ever
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2015
Carnival of Shadows
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2015
Transport
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2015
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
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2014
A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)
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2014
Auto-Collider XX
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2013
As If
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2013
The Quiet Car
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2013
Winter Morning
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2013
Brooklyn Series
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2013
Photographic Phantoms
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2013
Auto-Collider XVIII
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