article_title name birth_date
ernie gehr
 ernie gehr 1941
ernie gehr

ernie gehr -lrb- born 1941 -rrb- is an american experimental filmmaker closely associated with the structural film movement of the 1970s .
a self-taught artist , gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a stan brakhage film .
gehr 's film `` serene velocity '' -lrb- 1970 -rrb- has been selected for preservation in the united states national film registry .
gehr served as faculty at the san francisco art institute .
`` the new york times '' described gehr 's work as `` abstract , beautiful , mysterious , invigorating , utopian '' saying he had `` embraced modernist cry , shunning mainstream narrative to make films in which bubbling grain , streaks of color and pulses of light are the main attraction . ''
his films are distributed by canyon cinema in san francisco .
