© © 1978 Bruce Posner


© © 1978 Bruce Posner


© © 1978 Bruce Posner


© © 1978 Bruce Posner

SAPPHO AND JERRY PART I, II, III

by Bruce POSNER
1977-1978 / 35mm / color / sound / 1S / 5' 58




The three parts developed over a year period of intense study during the mid-1970s. It sort of began and ended with my dependency on “high-tech” equipment to make films and led me through the equally intensive parameters of what motion picture film could reproduce on a visceral, detail oriented level. I learned filmmaking on a 35mm Oxberry beam-splitter, multi-head, aerial-image bi-pac optical printer. A dinosaur by today's standards and all hand operated prior to the advent of computer-assists, this machine was precise and exact to the frame.

“Posner's careening 'Sappho and Jerry: Parts I, II & III' obviously calls for more than a single viewing before one can understand their structures or decode their deeper meanings.” David Sterritt, “Christian Science Monitor”

“Amazing use of Scope, multilayered imagery… By the way, folks (myself included) really went wild when Haller showed your film on Friday, and the audience asked for him to show it again on Saturday, which he did.” Ross Nugent, Pittsburgh Filmmakers



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