# Ernie Gehr

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**Ernie Gehr** (born 1941)[1] is an American [experimental filmmaker](/source/Experimental_film) closely associated with the [Structural film](/source/Structural_film) movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a [Stan Brakhage](/source/Stan_Brakhage) film. Gehr's film *[Serene Velocity](/source/Serene_Velocity)* (1970) has been selected for preservation in the United States [National Film Registry](/source/National_Film_Registry). Gehr served as faculty at the [San Francisco Art Institute](/source/San_Francisco_Art_Institute).

*[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)* described Gehr's work as "abstract, beautiful, mysterious, invigorating, utopian" saying he had "embraced [the] Modernist cry, shunning mainstream narrative to make films in which bubbling grain, streaks of color and pulses of light are the main attraction."[1] His film *Essex Street Quartet* (2004) was included in the exhibition "The Long Run" at [The Museum of Modern Art](/source/The_Museum_of_Modern_Art), New York, from November 11, 2017, to November 4, 2018.[2]

## Filmography

- *Morning* (1968)
- *Wait* (1968)
- *Reverberation* (1969)
- *Transparency* (1969)
- *Field* (1970)
- *[Serene Velocity](/source/Serene_Velocity)* (1970)
- *[Still](/source/Still_(1971_film))* (1969–1971)
- *Shift* (1972–1974)
- *[Eureka](/source/Eureka_(1979_film))* (1974)
- *Table* (1976)
- *Untitled* (1977)
- *Mirage* (1981)
- *Untitled: Part One* (1981)
- *[Signal—Germany on the Air](/source/Signal%E2%80%94Germany_on_the_Air)* (1982–1985)
- *[Side/Walk/Shuttle](/source/Side/Walk/Shuttle)* (1991)
- *Rear Window* (1986/1991)
- *This Side of Paradise* (1991)
- *For Daniel* (1997)
- *Glider* (2001)
- *Precarious Garden* (2004)
- *The Morse Code Operator/The Monkey Wrench* (2006)
- *Before The Olympics* (2006)
- *Whispers* (2008)
- *New York Lantern* (2008)
- *Photographic Phantoms* (2014)
- *A Commuter's Life (What a Life!)* (2015)

## References

1. Manohla Dargis, ["No Blockbusters Here, Just Mind Expanders"](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/movies/ernie-gehrs-films-traffic-in-images-and-light.html?_r=0), *The New York Times*, November 11, 2011. Retrieved 2013-05-27.

1. ["ERNIE GEHR: Essex Street Quartet (2004)"](https://brooklynrail.org/2018/07/artseen/Ernie-Gehr-Essex-Street-Quartet-2004). 11 July 2018.

## Further reading

- Sitney, P. Adams (1980). *Ernie Gehr*. [Minneapolis](/source/Minneapolis): Walker Art Center. [OCLC 9103172](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9103172)

## External links

- [Interview with Ernie Gehr](https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/a-playground-with-no-supervision-an-interview-with-ernie-gehr), MUBI

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