Pedestrian Activities
Pedestrian Activities
0/102023HD
"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...
Ernie Gehr
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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...
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Lisbon Views
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Before the Olympics
Before the Olympics0/102006HD“Before the Olympics is composed out of sounds and images recorded in Torino in November 2005, while the city was undergoing renovations for...
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Field
Field0/101970HD"The title is a reference to the force-field within the rectangle. To accentuate its character I filmed with B&W filmstock." – Ernie Gehr
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Undertow
Undertow0/102021HD“The eyes may be attracted to look left and right – and please let them – but the center is also intriguing and not separable from...
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Back in the Park
Back in the Park0/102021HD“This is a work that evolved out of play and a sudden impulse. I had been recording footage for a work in Midtown Manhattan. On one particular...
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Floating Particles
Floating Particles0/102021HD“It’s a mysterious field, this screen rectangle populated by haunting phantasmagoric phenomena, be it representational or just patterns...
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Mirror of Dreams
Mirror of Dreams0/102020HD“A cinematic audio-visual fugue plays out in-time a choreography of interior and exterior spaces, activities, sounds and perhaps...
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Delirium
Delirium0/102020HD"It was recorded over Summer of 2020, we were isolating ourselves. We live in the ground floor in an apartment building, we have the full backyard...
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Flying Over Brooklyn
Flying Over Brooklyn0/102020HDThis short video was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, one of a number of pieces meant to show how New York artists are working,...
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Through the Hoops of Time
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New York Central
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Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II
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Construction Sight
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Autumn
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Circling Essex Crossing
Circling Essex Crossing0/102018HD"The concluding work is Circling Essex Crossing. In this piece, what arises out of a series of images documenting the construction of Essex Crossing...
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Aproposessexstreetmarket
Aproposessexstreetmarket0/102018HD"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of...
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For the Birds
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Street Scenes
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Sensations of Light, #7
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In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)
In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)0/102015HDThis film accompanies Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic.
