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