Country: USA
Year: 2001
Duration: 37
"Coll, delirous and
mysterious. Futuristic, yet ancient. A voyage into a pictorial space-world that
seems to be governed by extraterrestrial optical and gravitational laws" (A.
Gehr).
"Glider gleans the phantasmagorical from the hyperreal
poised on contraddicitons - lucid and oscure, factual and soft edged, stoic and
ecstatic. Are our feet on the round in a dream, or is this a document in midai
with apparent motion evoking astral travels? We tour a limited topography as an
endless fugitive streaming of melted boudaries of land and sea in and out of
body expereience. Watching Glider it is as though we are glimpsing a
panoromic toy through the glassine warp of infant perception or an
aerial-ethereal perspective from a buoyant overlook in Nadar's balloon or from a
distant satellite" (M. McE).
Biography
film director
Ernie Gehr
Ernie Gehr (Milwaukee,
Usa, 1943), began making
films in the 8mm format in the 1960s and has established himself as one
of the
true masters of New American Cinema. His films have screened
internationally,
including retrospectives at the MOMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou
in Paris
and at the San Francisco Cinematheque. He has also taught cinema at the
American Film Insitute, the University of California and the School of
the Art
of Chicago.
FILMOGRAFIA
Morning (1968), Wait
(1968), Reverberation
(1969), Transparency (1969), History
(1970), Field (Short
Version) (1970), Field (1970), Serene
Velocity (1970), Three
(1970), Still (1969-71), Eureka
(1974), Shift (1972-74),
Behind the Scenes (1975), Table (1976),
Untitled (1977), Hotel
(1979), Mirage (1981), Part
One (1981), Signal-Germany on
the Air (1982-85), Listen (1986-91), Rear
Window (1986-91), This
Side of Paradise (1991), Side/Walk/Shuttle (l991),
For Daniel (1996),
Cotton Candy (2002), Carte da Visite -
Der V'03-Trailer (2003),
Essex
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director: Ernie
Gehr