Ernie Gehr
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"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)
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Lisbon Views (2022)
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Modern Navigation (2002)
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Crystal Palace (2011)
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Construction Sight (2018)
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Precarious Garden (2004)
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Photographic Phantoms (2013)
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Cotton Candy (2002)
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Street Scenes (2017)
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Auto-Collider (2010)
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Serene Velocity (1970)
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Brooklyn Series (2013)
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Carroll Gardens (2024)
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Greene Street (2004)
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Shift (1974)
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Floating Particles (2021)
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Wait (1968)
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Departure (2012)
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As If (2013)
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Autumn (2017)
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Bon Voyage (2015)
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Surveillance (2010)
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Eureka (1974)
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Medicine Cabinet (2023)
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Rear Window (1991)
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The Collector (2004)
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Aproposessexstreetmarket (2018)
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ABRACADABRA (2009)
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Passage (2003)
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Reverberation (1969)
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Table (1976)
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Delirium (2020)
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Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows (2005)
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Mirage (1981)
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Brewster, MA (2011)
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City (2002)
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Waterfront Follies (2009)
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Transport (2015)
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Shadow (2007)
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Pedestrian Activities (2023)
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Undertow (2021)
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Untitled (1977)
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Morning (1968)
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20 Little Films (2012)
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Essex Street Market (2004)
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Field (1970)
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Winter Morning (2013)
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South Station (2024)
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For Daniel (1997)
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Picture Taking (2010)
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Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière) (2004)
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Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
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This Side of Paradise (1991)
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Still (1971)
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Thank You for Visiting (2010)
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Better than Ever (2015)
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Auto-Collider XX (2014)
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A Commuter's Life (What a Life!) (2014)
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The Astronomer's Dream (2004)
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High-Wire Act (2023)
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History (1970)
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Transparency (1969)
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Through the Hoops of Time (2020)
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Glider (2001)
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Signal - Germany on the Air (1985)
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Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II (2019)
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Along Brighton Beach Avenue (1981)
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Flying Over Brooklyn (2020)
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New York Lantern (2008)
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Noon Time Activities (2004)
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Sensations of Light, #7 (2016)
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In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay) (2015)
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Creatures of the Night (2024)
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Work in Progress (2012)
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The Quiet Car (2013)
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Carnival of Shadows (2015)
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By Rail, To Boston (2024)
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Auto-Collider XV (2012)
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Mist (2010)
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Chambers of Time (2010)
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The Morse Code Operator (or The Monkey Wrench) (2006)
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Sunday in Paris (2016)
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Mirror of Dreams (2020)
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For the Birds (2016)
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Circling Essex Crossing (2018)
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Behind the Scenes (1975)
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Back in the Park (2021)
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Cinematic Fertilizer – 1 (2007)
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Before the Olympics (2006)
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What’s Up! (2023)
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Lisa and Suzanne (1972)
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New York Central (2020)
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Hurry Up Henrietta (2009)
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Auto-Collider XVIII (2013)
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