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13/6/2002

Key Films by Ernie Gehr

Dia Art Foundation, New York

KEY FILMS BY ERNIE GEHR AT DIA

Dia Center for the Arts will host an open-air screening of pioneering works by filmmaker Ernie Gehr, including Morning (1968) and Serene Velocity (1970). The screening will take place on Dia's rooftop, in Dan Graham's Rooftop Urban Park Project of 1991. This event was originally scheduled to take place in September 2001.

Within deliberately restrictive structures, Gehr employs a broad variety of means of expression. In Morning, one of his first films, he captured quiet moments in a Manhattan loft in single-frame shots, producing a visual study of the effects of light and focal length on film stock. For the widely known Serene Velocity, he used a fixed camera position and varying focal lengths to film an empty corridor over the course of a night and early morning, creating a hypnotic and unpredictable document.

Friday, June 14, 2002, 8:30 pm

Ernie Gehr was born in 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and began making films in the 1960s. He has completed more than 24 films to date, most of which have been screened internationally. Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Museé du Cinema in Brussels and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Gehr has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and was honored with the Maya Deren Award by the American Film Institute. He lives and works in San Francisco.

ADMISSION Free

DIA
Founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation plays a vital and singular role among visual arts institutions nationally and internationally by initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects, and by serving as a primary locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. Dia presents a program of exhibitions at Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea, New York City. Supplementary programming at Dia Center for the Arts includes artists' projects for the web, lectures, poetry readings, film and video screenings, performances, scholarly research and publications, symposia, and an arts education program that serves area students.

Exhibition hours at Dia Center for the Arts during the 2001-2002 season are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6 pm, through June 16, 2002.

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Sarah Thompson
tel.: 212 293 5518
fax: 212 989 4055

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