Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr takes a 1903 film that shows San Francisco’s Market Street, as photographed from a trolley, and multiplies each frame of the ...

The past is never delineated through Gehr’s film, an unorthodox “city symphony” composed of largely static compositions of West ...

“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all ...