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."...

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

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

[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...

GROUP IV: BEADED LIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) “In BEADED LIGHT, Gerson applies an ambiguous procedure to our perception of color and...

"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...

GROUP II: WATER (1969, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Two images of a lapping water level, used at the beginning and end of the film, counterpointing the...

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

2023 digital work by Barry Gerson

2022 digital work by Barry Gerson

A confined space alive and teeming with energy – shapes merge forming new shapes.

An elegant study of light, color, geometry, and perspective.

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

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