San Francisco–based filmmaker Ernie Gehr has made a number of exquisite minimal works that reflect his longstanding fascination with early cinema and its precursors. With little or no camera movement, the viewer is given time to look, to contemplate details of everyday life. Filmed in Manhattan in the early 1970s as part of a city symphony (eventually abandoned), using archaic box cameras that are sometimes simply placed on a table or on the ground, at times picked up and moved with the film running, the films in this program lovingly detail a lost New York. Scenes of a fruit and vegetable market, noontime lunch counters, and people crisscrossing city streets or riding the subway hark back to Lumière's actualities, as the title of one fragment, Workers Leaving the Factory (After Lumière) (12 mins, B&W), underscores. In the final work, Greene Street (5 mins, Color), the mood shifts from black-and-white to shimmering Kodachrome color, as we literally watch time pass. Plus Essex Street Market (29 mins, B&W) and Noon Time Activities (21 mins, B&W). These four works were recently transferred to digital video from the original 16mm footage.