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