"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared down the center of an empty institutional hallway – thus playing off the contradiction generated by the frames’ heightened flatness and the compositions’ severely overdetermined perspective. Without ever moving the camera, Gehr turned the fluorescent geometry of this literal Shock Corridor (in the then – new State University of N.Y at Binghamton) into a sort of piston-powered mandala. If Giotto had made action films it would be this." – J. Hoberman
Ernie Gehr
Director
Reservoir Dogs74%
A Movie65%
A Woman60%
Mater and the Ghostlight62%
Shanghaied59%
Fast Film68%
Curve69%
Joker: Put on a Happy Face80%
Our Wife70%
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales69%
His Mouse Friday64%
Perfect Day69%
The House70%Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
Sketch70%
The Tramp65%
The Cowboy and the Frenchman60%
Beau Hunks68%
The Yankee Doodle Mouse71%
Sea Scouts63%
