Barry Gerson Movies

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Amid Guanajuato's vibrant streets, an aging filmmaker becomes a modern Don Quixote, joined by a spirited young animator as his loyal Sanchia....

"Endurance/Rememberance/Metamorphosis is a film composed of three parts of equal duration. Each part consists of a single shot of a minimal space."...

With light-drenched visuals illuminating a screenplay of "dialogue and poetry," filmmaker Gerson made this short B&W experimental feature about a man...

"Oblique mattes, instead of blocking the vision, accentuate our ability to see and appreciate details, narrowing and expanding the focus of our...

[D]ynamic shapes emitting energy from the living forms created by subtle camera movements combined with compositional awareness.

Exploration of the possibilities of light – ephemeral, dazzling, ravishing. Its flames and explosions, its swirls and glimmer, its interactions...

"Two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously." - Barry Gerson Poetic structure created through masking out of two separate images...

2016 digital work by Barry Gerson

SUNLIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Sunlight patterns on a window in constant change through subtle camera swings – the motions repeated...

Evocations of a space in the mind – limitless, soundless. Blackness punctuated by bursting water bubbles ascending and descending into the...

“Since all matter in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore , in constant motion. My film/videos become an activated metaphor to...

"I would like to say something else in relation to the Automatic Free Form Film movement. The camera was constantly moving. Movement was used to...