The Turning of the Year

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil).

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

A summing up of the spontaneous Super 8 filmmaking I have done over the past decade exploring nature, home, and friends using improvised distorting lenses, macro photography, and pixillation. I imagine that it would fit the film scholar P. Adams Sitney's definition of a " Quotidian Lyric". Music by 2 of my favorite percussion ensembles : Ensemble et. al. and TIGUE.

Two men materialized on the empty street...

A super 8 film conceived and shot by my friend Franklin Johnson around 1975 with additional footage shot by me. Features our longtime friend Marlis Spauchus ( Dunn ). Music by Terry Riley.

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

My first use of superimposition and cut-out animation. Winner of a grand prize in the best experimental film category at the annual Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival held at Rutgers University

A study of light and shadow shot on Tri-X super 8 black and white film. Music by the composer Peter Garland. " It is in the shadows that momentous encounters take place " - Alfred Fabre-Luce

An old one, from the early days of my super 8 filmmaking. The Patti Smith Group live in N.J. 1976. The aliens are coming. Take me up, up……..

# 2 in a series of personal short super 8 films called " The Quotidian Lyrics ".

I love music of all kinds, therefore it's rare for one of my films to not have musical accompaniment. However, the majority of the time, the film comes first and after it's edited I search for a piece of music that fits the films length, rhythms, and tone. It is the opposite with this film, as it was for Tomorrow Never Knows. Boy With a Fish is a wonderful indie-rock band from Ithaca, NY, that deserves wider attention. When I first heard the surreal lyrics to this song I immediately wanted to attempt to express them cinematically. This is the result.

The image of the sleeping Buddha historically represents the Buddha dying or entering Nirvana. Or he may be dreaming of lives past and of death and what lies beyond. Music by Henry Kaiser and Kaki King. Special thanks to Jodie Mack and Marlis Dunn.

Impression of a performance of the Flock dance troupe at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.

"Everything is water if you look long enough" —Robert Creeley

"Everything is water if you look long enough" -Robert Creeley Music by D* Note (Phased and Konfused mix of Steve Reich's Piano Phase)

3 days of the 2012 Fresh Grass Festival at Mass MoCA condensed in 3 1/2 minutes of Super 8 film. Edited in camera.