IFFR 1998

Ernie Gehr

One long trolley bus shot made in San Francisco in 1906, transformed by re-printing into a film memory that haunts us.

Ernie Gehr retro

Eureka

Sweeping camera movements totally transform space.

Field

A direct portrait of Gehr's child emerging into the world over the first four years of his life. An intense, silent and unusual 'home movie'.

For Daniel

Shot with a lensless camera, a field of pure vibrating chemical process.

History

Gehr's most beautiful film: bands of unbelievable colour.

Mirage

Morning

One of Gehr's favourite locations: the city crossroads.

Place Bel-Air, Geneva 1989

Rear Window

Street scenes, rumble and vibrate into pure film energy.

Reverberation

Masterpiece. A mundane corridor is transformed and perceptually torn apart in filming.

Serene Velocity

A witty, Mondrian of a film: trucks, cars and the street itself become a glowing picture.

Shift

A visual symphony for San Francisco captured from an outside lift going up and down. Disorienting and beautiful.

Side/Walk/Shuttle

A Berlin crossroads seen with haunting intensity and fragments of sound that evoke past histories of the city.

Signal, Germany on the Air

A New-York street filmed with complex superimpositions to weave together memories and the present.

Still

Table

Filming this muddy, flooded flea-market just before the Wall came down, the film-maker delicately captures the mood of precarious lives.

This Side of Paradise

A couple wait, the light vibrates around them.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025