Bruce POSNER


Nationality: American

“As we head toward the century's end and the information highway, film seems ever more the Route 66 of communication -- and Posner's work reminds us that it's a much more satisfying way to travel.” Jay Carr, Boston Globe

“Bruce Posner is well known in the field of artist cinema as an inventive thinker and creative personality who has mastered both the history of film and the functional aspects of production techniques. He can speak engagingly and capably on nearly any topic—from turn-of-the-century Nickelodeon theaters, to mid-century multi-screen performance, to contemporary installation art in gallery spaces. He has a likeable personality and a down-to-earth wit and awareness to boot.” Margaret Parsons, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

"His own films are quite exquisite, visually dense works, painstakingly composed primarily through animation and optical printing. His frames of reference range from highly personal, almost diary-like material to images he has appropriated from popular culture (advertising, cartoons, news) in a process he began to pursue long before its current vogue ...and watching one of his films can recall the complex layering of some of the more accomplished etchers of this century.” Bill Judson, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

“I can not imagine that Bruce Posner would need any further introduction than his own many great works have achieved in the film world, i.e. that anyone involved seriously with film would have him in somewhat of a heroic posture in their mind. Museums, archives, and audiences worldwide have benefited immeasurably from Posner’s sustained 27 years-long [c. 2002] effort to locate, preserve, and present the hidden and undiscovered film. I don’t know of anyone who has done more to reveal to us the overlooked and the underrated cinema which once seen by and through his and other people’s auspices certainly comes to take its preeminent place in film history.” Stan Brakhage, filmmaker

“You know that I have always supported you in your work! The passion, dedication and the incredible value of what you have done. And please remain as complex and nervous as you are! Normal people are boring, and they do boring things! But we are poets, and we are not normal! DO NOT RETIRE EVER! (I don't think you will or can...)” Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, Anthology Film Archives


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