Ernie Gehr is an American experimental film

Experimental film

Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...

maker closely associated with the Structural film

Structural film

Structural film was an experimental film movement prominent in the US in the 1960s and which developed into the Structural/materialist films in the UK in the 1970s.-Overview:The term was coined by P...

 movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

James Stanley Brakhage , better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film....

 film. Gehr's film Serene Velocity

Serene Velocity

Serene Velocity is a 1970 American experimental short film. It was directed by Ernie Gehr and filmed in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University academic building....

(1970) has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry

National Film Registry

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. Gehr served as faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...

. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema

Canyon Cinema

Canyon Cinema is a San Francisco based filmmakers' cooperative specializing in the distribution of avant-garde and experimental film. The organization was instigated in about 1960 by Bruce Baillie as an exhibition outlet for independent film, and was formally established as a non-profit...

 in San Francisco.

Filmography

• Morning (1968)
• Wait (1968)
• Reverberation (1969)
• Transparency (1969)
• Field (1970)
• Serene Velocity
  Serene Velocity
  Serene Velocity is a 1970 American experimental short film. It was directed by Ernie Gehr and filmed in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University academic building....
  
  (1970)
• Still (1969–1971)
• Shift (1972–1974)
• Eureka (1974)
• Table (1976)
• Untitled (1977)
• Mirage (1981)
• Untitled: Part One (1981)
• Signal - Germany on the Air (1982–1985)
• Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991)
• Rear Window (1986/1991)
• This Side of Paradise (1991)
• Glider (2001)
• Precarious Garden (2004)
• The Morse Code Operator/The Monkey Wrench (2006)
• Before The Olympics (2006)
• Whispers (2008)
• New York Lantern (2008)

External links

• Ernie Gehr at Canyon Cinema