Bruce Posner

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Sonia and Aldo Trailer

Bruce Posner has worked as a curator and programmer of film, a lecturer on the history and theory of motion pictures, an archivist focused on film preservation and restoration, and an artist of film and photography. In 1999, working with 60 of the world's leading film archives, Posner began work on Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, a film restoration and preservation project sponsored by Anthology Film Archives and Deutsches Film Museum. The widely exhibited retrospective has been hailed a milestone in the study of the formative stages of American experimental cinema.

Most Popular Bruce Posner Trailers

Total trailers found: 28

Tenants Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

2.55:1 color silent

Orgasamatic Trailer (1983)

07 November 1983

Original 4 projector piece with colored filters transcribed to 35mm film by Pat O’Neill and transferred to 1080 HD digital.

Deaf Women Listening to Stockhausen, Pt. 1 Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

3 projectors/screens, color, silent

Heaven on Earth Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

35mm 1.33 color silent

Bewildered, Pt. I Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

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

Hamaca: The Quickie Version Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The film grew out of the home movies made by my father and then by me. Led to one of the first optical printer films produced at The Florida Optical House, Miami, and shot by Albie Krieger.

The Analects Trailer (1992)

20 May 1992

BE SIMON CHECK EDIT 21 8 30

Da-Mi / Rainbow’s Dance Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

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

Illusive Presence Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

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

Control Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

2 projectors 1:33 2.55 color b/w silent

Architectural Escapades at Dartmouth Trailer (2020)

25 July 2020

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

The Blue Danube Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

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

Senses of Walden Ode / Angel Face Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

1.33 color b/w silent

Bewildered, Pt. III Trailer (2018)

01 January 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.

Lepus / Keats / Chu Chu Cha Cha! Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A color and sound film

Lyon san Lumiére Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

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

Damage Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

2 projectors 1:33 2.55 b/w silent

AO804.1 Trailer (2017)

01 August 2017

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.

Behold Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

1.33 color b/w silent

Bewildered, Pt. II Trailer (2011)

01 January 2011

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

Trappist Preserves Trailer (1977)

02 January 1977

"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.

Sappho and Jerry (Parts I - III) Trailer (1978)

04 November 1978

“The three parts developed over a year period of intense study during the mid-1970s. It sort of began and ended 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.

A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! Trailer (2026)

31 January 2026

Kenneth Anger edited his own version of Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished Mexican reverie, and even showed it at a festival.

Tenga Fe Trailer (2021)

31 December 2021

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

Mona Lisa Smiles (Again and Again) Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

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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.

Aged in Wood Trailer (2020)

02 April 2020

“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.

Sonia and Aldo Trailer (2020)

28 February 2020

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

Pilldebahl Trailer (1982)

21 March 1982

2 projectors/screens, color, silent