Serene Velocity
Serene Velocity
4.5/101970HD
"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared...
Ernie Gehr
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Side/Walk/Shuttle
Side/Walk/Shuttle6.5/101992HDIn this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and...
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Wait
Wait4.9/101968HD"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to...
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Eureka
Eureka5.7/101974HD"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place...
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Mist
Mist6.5/102010HDSilence dominates the work, as does the screen rectangle, which cuts off the “image” from a life time-space continuum and imposes upon...
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South Station
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By Rail, To Boston
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Table
Table6.2/101976HD"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and...
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Carte de Visite
Carte de Visite7/102003HDDrifting clouds. They are not nice little clouds that invite us to interpret them symbolically; rather they are poisonous and unhealthy clusters, a...
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Still
Still3.5/101971HD"This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth. The superimpositions seem to lie on top of...
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Creatures of the Night
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Carroll Gardens
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Hurry Up Henrietta
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Water Spell
Water Spell7/102007HD"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...
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Cinematic Fertilizer – 1
Cinematic Fertilizer – 13.5/102007HDTwo related videotapes in which Gehr articulates formal connections between organic and geometrical forms, CF1 and 2 adopt the thaumatope structure...
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Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace10/102011HDAn ode to digital interlace, which is to video what intervals between frames are to film…
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History
History7/101970HD"Film in its primordial state in which patterns of light and darkness are still undivided. Like the natural order of the universe, an unbroken flow...
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What’s Up!
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High-Wire Act
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Medicine Cabinet
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Pedestrian Activities
Pedestrian Activities0/102023HD"I have a number of doctors that I have to see – getting older and it’s an issue all the time, and they are on the Upper East Side. I...
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Untitled
Untitled0/101977HD"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...
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Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows0/102005HDMechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and...
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Sunday in Paris
Sunday in Paris0/102016HD"Throughout his long career, Ernie Gehr has explored cinema's unique potential to reveal the limits and possibilities of visual perception and the...
