© © 1982, 1994 Bruce Posner


© © 1982, 1994 Bruce Posner


© © 1982, 1994 Bruce Posner


© © 1982, 1994 Bruce Posner

ORGASAMATIC

de Bruce POSNER
1984-1994 / 35mm / couleur / sonore / 1E / 4' 37




The middle film in a trilogy, ‘ORGASAMATIC’ [‘a’ placed between the ’s’ & ‘m’] picks up where ‘Sappho and Jerry, Pt. III’ ended in 1978 and ‘Mona Lisa Smiles (Again and Again)’ goes 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 were burned repeated times in real life and on film.

The inspiration came from an indelible sequence excerpted from the pro-sterilization film, 'The Feeble Minded' c.1930s, wherein a young girl is forcefully induced into epileptic seizure by escalating flashed lights, a bad metaphor for the orgasm-addict eluded to by the new film’s title. The content relates back to following sad origins. Mary Abbott’s young nephews, niece and babysitter all sadly died in an early morning house fire in St. Albans, VT in 1982. The b/w images of the weird boy’s face that flashes by were contact printed several months beforehand, right next to the same chimney that caught fire. The weird boy Avy, a friend from college days (c. 1974-76), was photographed by his father each year through adulthood and each year in a different costume. Meanwhile, Mary Abbott as “Florence nightingale” with candelabra waifs into and out of the frame.”



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