Showtime to be announced We welcome Ernie Gehr in person for a tribute in which we are joined by the San Francisco International Film Festival and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Ernie Gehr, who teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, has been described by J. Hoberman as "a filmmaker's filmmaker....Like Michael Snow, Paul Sharits and others, Gehr has addressed himself to the fundamental qualities of film as film: the paradox of apparent motion, the 'anxiety' arising out of three-dimensional representation on a two-dimensional plane, the tension between the photographed image and its material base." "I just completed these films. Still catching my breath and removing splicing cement from my fingers. So, what can I say about them? I've got to 'see' them, experience them really, outside of the drive that propelled them into being and the decisions I made and did not make on the editing table and at the lab. During editing, it was always a pleasure to see them, especially in the later stages as their final shapes began to crystalize. Beyond that I'm hesitant to say anything before their first public screening. In Search of Paradise was recorded in Berlin and Side/Walk/Shuttle in San Francisco." -Ernie Gehr