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Ernie Gehr: Bon Voyage

Author/Editor: Andrea Bellini

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Ernie Gehr (b. 1943, Milwaukee, WI) is one of the leading figures in American avant-garde cinema and his Serene Velocity (1970) remains one of the best-known works of experimental film. Entirely self-taught, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after he chanced upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage work. Closely associated since the ’70s—along with masters like Hollis Frampton and Paul Sharits—to the Structural movement, in the course of his career Gehr has created an unsurpassed body of work in film and video that combines richly conceived, rigorous cinematic structures with a profound sensitivity to the physical world around him. This publication, created on the occasion of Bon Voyage, the first solo exhibition ever dedicated to his work by an art institution, includes a long interview with Ernie Gehr by Andrea Bellini (curator of the exhibition and director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva) and two seminal essays by Ken Eisenstein and John G. Hanhardt on Gehr’s most recent output as well as a visual essay specifically composed for this book by Gehr himself.

CONTENTS:
5. Beyond Cinema: An Exhibition of the Recent Works of Ernie Gehr, by Andrea Bellini
9. Ernie Gehr in conversation with Andrea Bellini
23. “Where Time Does Not Play“: Ernie Gehr Turning on a Dime, by Ken Eisenstein
49. The View from Here: The Art of Ernie Gehr, by John G Hanhardt
65. Bon Voyage, by Ernie Gehr

Publisher: Mousse Books
ISBN: 9788867491573