Work in Progress

Directed by Ernie Gehr, Appearing in Person
US 2012, digital video, color, 32 min
In this fascinating exploration of the rich, elusive qualities of the video surface, Gehr layers transparent and translucent repetitions of a complex urban street scene to form a mesmerizing tableau.

ABRACADABRA

Directed by Ernie Gehr, Appearing in Person
US 2009, digital video, b/w & color, 29 min
A newly reedited version of Gehr’s celebrated triptych meditation on pre- and early cinema and the magical properties of the moving image.

Auto-Collidor XV
Auto-Collidor XVI

Directed by Ernie Gehr, Appearing in Person
US 2011, digital video, color, 9 min & 13 min
Gehr’s on-going but still unscreened Auto-Collidor series is an important extension of his long interest in the automobile as a privileged “vehicle” for his visual imagination. While Auto-Collidor XV embracing a pure painterly abstraction – Agnes Martin at 150 mph – Auto-Collidor XVI plays a mechanized origami game with the image, collapsing vehicles into hypnotic, accordion-like instruments.