Ernie Gehr retro

Overview of films

• Shift

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

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• Morning

  Light transforms the image.

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• Place Bel-Air, Geneva 1989

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

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• Rear Window

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• For Daniel

  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’.

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• Still

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

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• Serene Velocity

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

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• History

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

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• Field

  Sweeping camera movements totally transform space.

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• Eureka

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

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• Mirage

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

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• Reverberation

  Street scenes, rumble and vibrate into pure film energy.

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