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