Bruce Posner

Documentation of Sonia Landy Sheridan and Aldo Tambellini in conversation with Bruce Posner.

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2 projectors 1:33 2.55 color b/w silent

1.33 b/w silent. Music by anonymous street cantor & Malcolm Goldstein

2.55:1 color silent

Original 4 projector piece with colored filters transcribed to 35mm film by Pat O’Neill and transferred to 1080 HD digital. "The middle film in a trilogy, ‘ORGASAMATIC’ [the ‘a’ placed intentional between the ’s’ & ‘m’] picks up where ‘Sappho and Jerry’ ended in 1978, and ‘Mona Lisa Smiles (Again and Again)’ concludes in 2015. Moving away from the high-tech optical printing of ‘Sappho and Jerry’ led to the hand-printing and self-processing of films that were then screened on multiple projectors onto multiple screens. ‘ORGASAMATIC’ is the most extreme of these hand-made films in that the imagery is comprised from 35mm still picture negatives that depict persons on fire, children and men I knew that burned repeated times in real life and on film.” - Bruce Posner

A 2021 experimental film utilising, among other things, a clip from Gaston Velle's Voyage autour d’une étoile (1906).

Summer of 1976 (as opposed to the summer of love) just drifting around Miami. Before the Cubans were thrown out of Cuba, so town still cracker white for the most part. And the UM campus art buildings play some role. Also Miami Beach, Coral Gables, South Miami, Homestead, and the Everglades too. The inspiration was seeing the incredible Super8mm 8-screen diary cinema made by German-American photographer Will McBride, who several years earlier had visited the Wilson Hicks Communications Conference at UM. He somehow got Leica to donate the cameras and projectors and filmed everything at his hippie-artists-commune in Italy. Music track by a variety of persons; last performed and edited by Joel Haertling of Architect’s Office from several live performances in Boulder. He worked on most of Brakhage’s later sound films in the 80s-90s period.

2 projectors/screens, color, silent

1.33 color b/w silent

2 projectors 1:33 2.55 b/w silent

"The film acts as an epithet for what everyone knows about our meager place in the universe. Succinctly stated in Jack Arnold’s "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and loosely ad-libbed by me in an inspired Cageian manner via a pompous (but difficult to produce) single-frame optical pan traversing the lofty soliloquy. The toilet paper in the bare autumn tree was encountered early one morning outside the school of the Art Institute of Chicago on Columbus Drive. With eclair and 12-120 zoom in hand, it was a no brainer. The combinations illustrate a mocking attitude that is much in line with most Hollywood expressionism, lofty ideals via a crass medium."

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From my first scraps of professional film animation to the latest wonders of digital editing, this raucous bit of 3-screen mayhem encompasses most, if not all, of my filmmaking career and adult life. The lynchpin sits upon the looped, repeating images that reverberate next to a Hollywood studio Will Rogers’ biopic, ’The Story of Will Rogers’ (1952), that stutters away in tune to hand-painted graphics and 35mm movie and still shots flashing by of family and friends. This includes loops of the birth of my daughter Clara Estelle paired with snaps of Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung. Everyone is smiling in this mini-epic that is corralled in further concentric circles by an home-made audio collage of two riffs lifted from the Talking Heads and Sex Pistols." -Bruce Posner

35mm 1.33 color silent

Kenneth Anger edited his own version of Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished Mexican reverie, and even showed it at a festival. Alas leaving no trace of the object. Bruce Posner, now, created his own multi-screen variation on the story that lyrically compares moments from ¡Que Viva Mexico! with scenes from Anger’s avant-garde axiom Scorpio Rising.

1:33 color b/w silent 24/16fps. Music by Duke Ellington 1956, 1999; 2-channel stereo collage by Posner 2018.

From original camera rolls shot in Trinidad c.1987-1993. Edited 2017.

1:33 color b/w silent. Music by Duke Ellington 1956, 1999; 2-channel stereo collage by Posner 2018.

1-2-3 projectors 1:33 color b/w silent 24/16fps. Music by Duke Ellington 1956, 1999; 2-channel stereo collage by Posner 2018;8-channel 7.1/6-channel 5.1 surround sound remix by Carlos Dominguez 2021, 2023

“Aged in Wood” (a Christmas gift for my friends and loved ones… ) 1947, 1974, 1975, 2011, 2020, 16mm 24 fps, 1:37:1, to 2K DPX 10bit 4:3 to 16mm, clr, silent, 4:24 mins.

3 projectors/screens, color, silent

A report from the field (Dartmouth College) on July 25, 2020 with update posted August 21, 2020

A color and sound film

2 projectors 1:33, 2.40 color/bw, silent

2 projectors 1:33, 1.37. color b/w silent. 18fps.