Ernie Gehr (born 1941)[1] is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s.

Gehr served as faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.

The New York Times described Gehr's work as "abstract, beautiful, mysterious, invigorating, utopian" saying he had "embraced [the] Modernist cry, shunning mainstream narrative to make films in which bubbling grain, streaks of color and pulses of light are the main attraction.

"[1] His film Essex Street Quartet (2004) was included in the exhibition "The Long Run" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from November 11, 2017, to November 4, 2018.

[2] His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.