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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Morning
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Passage
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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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Floating Particles
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Undertow
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Brewster, MA
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Mirror of Dreams
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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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ABRACADABRA
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Departure
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Crystal Palace
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Mist
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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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Thank You for Visiting
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Field
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Thank You for Visiting
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Field
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Auto-Collider
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Lisa and Suzanne
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Better than Ever
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Bon Voyage
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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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What’s Up!
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Lisbon Views
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High-Wire Act
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Carroll Gardens
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Chambers of Time
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Through the Hoops of Time
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Work in Progress
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Delirium
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Creatures of the Night
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Medicine Cabinet
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In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
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Pedestrian Activities
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Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
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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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Autumn
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Picture Taking
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Transport
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Brooklyn Series
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The Quiet Car
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Essex Street Market
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Mirage
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Street Scenes
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Surveillance
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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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Modern Navigation
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Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)
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Noon Time Activities
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Greene Street
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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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The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench)
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Before the Olympics
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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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Shadow
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The Collector
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Winter Morning
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Aproposessexstreetmarket
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Circling Essex Crossing
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By Rail, To Boston
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South Station
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