Eureka

Eureka (1974)

"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place it is. And here in this preserved piece of history, one also sees the chemical dance of film grain that makes up the material of Gehr’s own History. We do not simply see Market Street circa 1902, but a film of Market Street, and it is as fascinating as the site itself. Film may in some sense exist indifferent to emotions, objects, beings, or ideas. But early in his work Gehr realized that film, even conceived as a thing in itself, can never exist outside of history. The very dance of grain on the screen acquires a history of its production, its screenings, its viewings. History is the place no place can avoid.” - Tom Gunning

Date de sortie
1974-01-02
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (9)
Durée
38 min
Genres
Documentaire
Réalisateur
Ernie Gehr

Anecdotes

Eureka, also known as Geography, is a 1979 American experimental short film by Ernie Gehr. It uses as its source material A Trip Down Market Street, a 1906 phantom ride which traverses Market Street in San Francisco. Gehr rephotographed the film, slowing it considerably by capturing each frame multiple times.

Production

In August 1974, Gehr participated in the film program New Forms in Films, curated by Annette Michelson. She showed him a 16 mm print of A Trip Down Market Street given to her by Ruth Perlmutter, who had been a student of hers at New York University. Perlmutter had obtained the print from a salesman from the San Francisco Bay Area, who in turn had found it in a trunk of his father's belongings.

To make Eureka, Gehr projected A Trip Down Market Street with a Kodak Analyst projector, which allowed him to project individual frames. He used a Bolex 16 mm camera to record each image four to eight times. Gehr adjusted this ratio throughout the film and sought a speed that would register as being "on a borderline between stillness and motion". The contrast in the image was then increased when Eureka was processed at the film laboratory.

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