“I just had a visitor here, a guy from Ecuador, and we had a show in my basement. I showed him a couple of films, and he was posing questions to get me talking like I am with you. He brought a woman with him, his girlfriend, and she asked me, so beautifully, “Have you ever had an out of the body experience?” And so that’s her way of saying that that’s what she had watching my films, and that’s…

NOTEBOOK: Considering the large volume of digital work you’ve produced in the last few years, can you speak to what keeps you so actively engaged in your creative process these days?

GEHR: I really do not have adequate words to describe things. I’m not very good with language. If I deal with a visual image, it’s a whole other thing for me. But let's say that I think my way of working is more of a hobby. It’s something that…

Professional-grade glossed-up baby food: smooth textures, easy to digest, and flavorless AF. Or, a movie for adults who clap when the airplane lands. Competent, yet completely empty and weirdly flat for a movie with the IQ of a chimp. There are zero—I repeat, zero—memorable set pieces (y'all gassing up that hijacking scene way too much). The actors spend the whole thing hyperventilating at each other. This is unironically about trauma, for some reason. TFW writing an ending—or having any thematic…