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Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr (born 1941 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film 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 film.

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  • The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema

    The impact of significant loss has exerted a powerful influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers. The Melancholy Lens offers a detailed look at biographical and psychological factors discernible in the art of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Ernie Gehr with an aim toward a greater understanding of their work.

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  • (S8) Mostra de Cine Periférico 2018: Lux Algebra

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    Time, structure, patterns. These are some of the principles that guide the 9th edition of (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico that, under the title Lux Algebra, invoke the alchemical film elements that manipulate time and its structures, in order to define a program that complete the trilogy dedicated to film creation the Mostra has been developing in these past editions, from the light with The New Impressionists (2016) to the material that supports the images with Objects and Appearances (2017), on the concepts of appropriation of found footage.

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    Friday, May 25, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, June 3, 2018 (All day)

  • Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola: P. Adams Sitney | A Half-Century of Showing Avant-garde Cinema

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    P. Adams Sitney | EQZE Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola © UnionDocs (Center for Documentary Art)

    P. Adams Sitney | A Half-Century of Showing Avant-garde Cinema | Conference and Screening with commentary

    Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola has suggested that the specialist should choose an ideal programme that might illustrate his 50 years as a programmer, curator, critic and spectator.

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    Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 19:00 to Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 18:55

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    Tabakalera - San Sebastián, España

  • Canyon Cinema Salon: Adele Horne

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    In Common (Adele Horne)

    Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of Thursday, December 15th, 2016 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment in our Salon series. We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Adele Horne who will present an evening of films set in gardens and forests.

    “I am honored to come up with this dream program showing my films alongside work by Ernie Gehr and Naomi Uman, whose delicate and startling visions have changed the way I see the world.” – Adele Horne

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    Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 19:30

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    New Nothing Cinema - San Francisco, United States

  • Abstraction in Avant-garde Films

    Turim MCheryn.  1985.  Abstraction in Avant-garde Films. Studies in Cinema. 32:165pp.
    • Tracing the rupture of the avant-garde
    • Beyond reading: image, imagination, aesthetic economies at play
    • Sound: beyond distinctions between music, noise and speech, a new process a new ordering
    • Gradual transformations and subtle changes
    • Visual dynamics, referential tensions and conceptual film
    • Flickering light, pulsing traces
    • Scanning landscapes and collapsing architectures: shattering the grounding of the subject/eye

  • Xcèntric: Streets were happy when they lit up their ghosts. The films of Ernie Gehr

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    Still (Ernie Gehr, 1969-1971)

    We screen three of the most representative works from the first period of American filmmaker Ernie Gehr. Framed within the so-called structural film, his film discourse trascends this classification, placing him in the category of a classic of the avant-garde.

    A shot can be a film; a film, an arrangement of snapshots exposed for fractions of a second or endless minutes. With each beat—or intermittent projection of the stills—the light, which depends on the reflections, the lens or the emulsion, communicates with our nerves and reveals the true action.

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    Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, January 29, 2016 - 19:55

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    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, España

  • Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department, 1967-1977

    In Binghamton Babylon, Scott M. MacDonald documents one of the crucial moments in the history of cinema studies: the emergence of a cinema department at what was then the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University) between 1967 and 1977. The department brought together a group of faculty and students who not only produced a remarkable body of films and videos but went on to invigorate the American media scene for the next half-century.

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  • Ernie Gehr - Bon Voyage

    An extensive overview of the oeuvre of one of the masters of experimental cinema, including a complete chronology of the cineast's work and life as well as newly commissioned contributions by Andrea Bellini, Ken Eisenstein, John Hanhardt, and a visual essay by the artist.

    Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève from January to April 2015.

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