Ernie Gehr (1943 - )

Filmography (partial)

Morning (1968), 4.5 minutes

Wait (1968), 7 minutes

Reverberation (1969), 25 minutes

Transparency (1969), 11 minutes

History (1970), 40 minutes

Field (1970), 9.5 minutes

Serene Velocity (1970), 23 minutes

Shirt (1972-74), 9 minutes

Eureka (1974), 30 minutes

Table (1976), 16 minutes

Untitled (1977), 5 minutes

Mirage (1981/91), 12 minutes

Signal–Germany on the Air (1982 - 85), 37 minutes

This Side of Paradise (1991), 14 minutes

Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991), 40 minutes

Daniel Willi, March April May 1992 (1993), 25 minutes

J. Hoberman on Serene Velocity

Serene Velocity is a literal "Shock Corridor" wherein Gehr creates a stunning head-on motion by systematically shifting focal lengths on a static zoom lens as it stares down the center of an empty, modernistic hallway–also plays off the contradictions generated by the frame’s heightened flatness and severe Renaissance perspective. Without ever having to move the camera, Gehr turns the fluorescent geometry of his institutional corridor into a sort of piston-powered mandala. If Giotto had made action films, they would have been these.–J. Hoberman