Ernie Gehr (born 1941) is an American experimental filmmaker, associated with the 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 film.
Gehr’s film Serene Velocity (1970) has been selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry.
Gehr served as faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Gehr’s work is described as abstract and mysterious, defying mainstream narrative to make experimental films.
His film Essex Street Quartet (2004) was included in the exhibition “The Long Run” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from November 11, 2017, to November 4, 2018.
Filmography
Morning (1968)
Wait (1968)
Reverberation (1969)
Transparency (1969)
Field (1970)
Serene Velocity (1970)
Still (1969–1971)
Shift (1972–1974)
Eureka (1974)
Table (1976)
Untitled (1977)
Mirage (1981)
Untitled: Part One (1981)
Signal—Germany on the Air (1982–1985)
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)
