Shadows, specters, shards examines experimental films, including work by eleanor antin, ernie gehr, and jeanluc godard, that take up events such as the holocaust, latin american independence struggles, and urban politics. The 33 selections include several previously unpublished theoretical and critical articles and many articles that were especially translated into english for this collection. Moma presents two exhibitions of moving image works. Ken eisenstein is an assistant professor at bucknell university. Making a rare trip to san francisco, ernie gehr joins us to present a screening of new worksfour moving image landscape considerations. Transparency 1969, history 1970, field 1970, serene velocity 1970. Dubbed radical light, the history of local art film oddities ends up touching on pretty much every important social movement and technical innovation from the 1880s to the 1990s. He is the son of federico gilberto perez y castillo 19111967 and edenia mercedes guillermo y marrero 19252002.
The indomitable, selftaught ernie gehr, whose film career began in the late 1960s and whose thirtyodd ventures in 16mm include such gems as still 196971, serene velocity 1970. New directions in the art of the moving image is a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from saams permanent collection. Demonstrates how avantgarde films better reflect the complexity of history than. Thank you for selecting our family owned business since 1995. Macdonald documents one of the crucial moments in the history of cinema studies. Ernie gehrs waterfront follies, screened in the toronto international film festivals wavelengths program, as well as at the views from the avantgarde sidebar at the new york film festival, sets the rules and lets the world and the audience do the work.
I greatly appreciate museums, cinemas, concert halls, as well as books, recordings, etc. Ernie gehr has an intimate relationship with the moving image. Hoberman who listed gehrs sidewalkshuttle as one of the ten best films of the 1990s. Please visit our online bookstore for more information about theseand other hardtofind titles. The ernie and bert book golden super shape book by joe.
Gehr, who was born in 1941 and is often grouped with the structuralist filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s like michael snow and hollis frampton, creates nonnarrative works sometimes jarring or disorientating, often meditative that naturally raise questions about the. Identifying a cinema of evocation rather than representation, these films call attention to the unrepresentable aspects of history that profoundly impact the experience of everyday life. Ernie gehr 1943, milwaukee started in 1968 as experimental film maker in new. This volume consists of 15 chapters, each presenting a different segment of modern scientific psychology.
Perspective and the dawn of virtual space, an exhibition that examines the multifaceted nature of perspective science and its applications, will be on view at the getty research institute from april 16 through july 7, 2002. Thus gehr s films and digital work embody both a history of cinema and a cinema of history. Published on the occasion of the first solo exhibition ever dedicated to ernie gehr by an art institution, this book is an extensive overview of the oeuvre of one of. Ernie gehr, and jeanluc godard, that take up events such as the holocaust. This was one especially satisfying as ernie banks was my first hero while growing up in the suburbs of chicago. Ernie gehr project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. As a public health precaution due to covid19 coronavirus, all smithsonian museums are closed temporarily beginning saturday, march 14, and all public programs, events, and. Ernie gehrs sidewalkshuttle slated for preservation national film preservation foundation 09192007 san francisco, ca september 19, 2007if giotto had been an action painter his name would be ernie gehr, wrote film critic j. Texts by andrea bellini, ken eisenstein and john g. Daniel eisenberg, some notes on the films of ernie gehr. Shadows, specters, shards university of minnesota press. Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination books.
This shaggy dog story is ernies extensive narration of apparently irrelevant rearrangements he has made that spiral out into cartoonish absurdity like and to think that i saw it on mulberry street. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. Shot from the glass elevator outside the fairmont hotel in san francisco, the film uses long shots and inverted images, among other techniques. East bay express a voluminous book that distills everything youd ever want to know about this genre, culled from 10 years of. Ernie gehrs sidewalkshuttle slated for preservation. A filmmakers filmmaker whose movies are so toughminded and lucid. An ernie gehr variety show part of canyon cinema 50.
Tony pipolo on new digital films by ernie gehr artforum. Jan 01, 2011 since my teams are doing so badly this summer,im not getting the satisfaction i usually do from watching baseball, so im reading lots of baseball books. Using authentic texts, original slides, historical knowhow, and onthe. Like no other artist, the 76yearold filmmaker has balanced his own poetic and autobiographical impulses with a careful and detailed exploration of what makes the movingimage medium uniquely its own. Ernie gehrs films traffic in images and light the new york times.
Jeffrey skoller challenges this myth, arguing that avantgarde films more accurately display the complex interplay between past events and our experience of the present than conventional documentaries and historical films. One of the leading figures of american avantgarde cinema since the late 1960s, ernie gehr has consistently explored the spatial, temporal, and granular qualities of film, upending laws of gravity and confounding optical givens, without repudiating realworld material. Ernie gehr born 1941 is an american experimental filmmaker closely associated with the structural film movement of the 1970s. Ernie gehrs films traffic in images and light the new york. Ernie gehr lives in san francisco and teaches at the san francisco art institute. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Making a rare trip to san francisco, ernie gehr joins us to present a screening of new. Topics range from biochemistry to the history of art, from epistemological arguments to the interplay of science and society. Ernie gehr born 1941 is an american experimental filmmaker closely associated with the. Like a history of violence, david cronenbergs followup could almost pass for an exceptionally wellmade b movie. We love that the book is written in comic speech bubble. As a public health precaution due to covid19 coronavirus, all smithsonian museums are closed temporarily beginning saturday, march 14, and all public programs, events, and tours are canceled through may 3.
The recalcitrant world, once it is depicted and articulated, can be peeled back like an onion, revealing constituent layers. Perez grew up in havana, cuba, where he was exposed to an eclectic international mix of films. Apr 21, 2017 the indomitable, selftaught ernie gehr, whose film career began in the late 1960s and whose thirtyodd ventures in 16mm include such gems as still 196971, serene velocity 1970, eureka. May 02, 1976 cecile starr article on role of late maya deren in creating amer avantgarde film, on occasion of museum of modern art presentation, may 411, of 30yr history of american avantgarde cinema.
Gehr filmed it in the basement hallway of a binghamton university academic building, using a static camera position and changing only the focal length of the camera. The visual diet of ordinary people at very least the 2. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing new films by ernie gehr near you. Ernie gehr, and jeanluc godard, that take up historical events such as the holocaust, latin. They ask us to look carefully and thoughtfully and to perceive, in all senses of the word.
However grudgingly filmlovers have accepted the hegemony of digital, there is no denying that avantgarde artists have spun gold from newer media. Gilberto perez 1943 january 6, 2015 was an american professor of film studies. Drawn primarily from the special collections of the research library of the getty. Identifying a cinema of evocation rather than representation, these films call attention to the. In signalgermany on the air it is history thats in the air, behind the mask of every face, every facade, every street sign. The online edition of artforum international magazine. Books that are fun, entertaining, and just plain silly need to be written more often these days. Ernie gehrs films traffic in images and light the new.
Starting on tuesday, and continuing each evening at 8. I value the ability to laugh at and invent the absurd, both in myself and others. Ernie gehr, yervant gianikian, angela ricci lucchi and craig baldwin. R this is a vintage 1991 official souvenir approx 3 x 2 hand signed player card photo for jamie cameron of the north harbour squad in new zealand from nearly 30 years ago with the card stated as a first edition collectible showing his portrait on the front see image 2 and brief statistics together with his history with north harbour on reverse who. Open to the public, it meets tuesday nights from 7. I begin my analysis of ernie gehrs 1985 film signal germany on the air with these somewwhat unflattering domestications of the filmmakers statement on borders, rather reluctantly, but necessarily, i think, in order that i may leave them behind.
Serene velocity is a 1970 american experimental short film directed by ernie gehr. Sep 04, 2005 shadows, specters, shards examines a group of experimental films, including work by eleanor antin, ernie gehr, and jeanluc godard, that take up historical events such as the holocaust, latin american independence struggles, and urban politics. Thus gehrs films and digital work embody both a history of cinema and a cinema of history. Textbooks are sold new and used and also offer book rental on certain. We operate as mondazzi books llc at 570 hayden station road, windsor, ct 06095 phone 8602850538. Born in milwaukee, and now seventysix years old, gehr is known for films such as wait 1968, reverberation 1969, history 1970, and especially serene velocity 1970. The campus store is located in the south side of the 300 quad, adjacent to the library. It is recognized as a key work of structural filmmaking and has been inducted into the u. Open to the public, it meets tuesday nights from 79 p.
A selftaught artist, gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a stan brakhage film. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. The works of art featured in this installation identify a complex relationship between still photography and moving images. Ernie gehr turning on a dime, was included in the catalogue to the centre dart contemporain geneves 2015 show ernie gehr. Ernie gehr born 1941 in milwaukee, wisconsin is an american experimental filmmaker closely associated with the structural film movement of the 1970s. Moma has a long history of collaboration with the filmmaker and will open gehrs installation panoramas of the moving image.
The bookstore offers textbooks, supplies, apparel clothing, snacks, candy, soda, gifts, and more. Shadows, specters, shards examines a group of experimental films, including work by eleanor antin, ernie gehr, and jeanluc godard, that take up historical events such as the holocaust, latin american independence struggles, and urban politics. Oct 03, 20 gehr, who was born in 1941 and is often grouped with the structuralist filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s like michael snow and hollis frampton, creates nonnarrative works sometimes jarring or disorientating, often meditative that naturally raise questions about the physical world and human perception. Ernie gehr was born on july 20, 1943 in milwaukee, wisconsin, usa. By describing and then interpreting their aesthetic processes, skoller guides his reader through the political and historical dimensions of works by such illustrious makers as ernie gehr, craig baldwin, leandro katz, dan eisenberg and zoe beloff. I also rather speciously call upon a personal statement by gehr, a statement retrieved from the archive, in order to allude to an implicit concern. In masterpieces of modernist cinema, prominent scholars considers wellknown films that seem to stand alone in the history of cinema, without obvious precursors, and without progeny. Avantgarde films are often dismissed as obscure or disconnected from the realities of social and political history.
Ernie gehrs series of four related films form part of the city section of the long run, momas thematic reinstallation of its fourth floor permanent collection to showcase work by artists from their later years. The death of my father and an earlier work of mine, signalgermany on the air, were still very much on my mind when this film was initiated. For example, history was originally a sound film projected at 24 fps. Since my teams are doing so badly this summer,im not getting the satisfaction i usually do from watching baseball, so im reading lots of baseball books. Gehr explained how, to make history, he had held black fabric in front of a movie camera without a lens its imageforming device, using a. This terminates with the anticlimactic punchline of why bert has a pot on his head on the cover. Cinematheque has also published artist books and monographs on filmmakersincluding ernie gehr, scott stark, stephanie barber, jeanne c. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.