Sappho and Jerry Parts I III (1978)

The three parts developed over a year period of intense study during the mid1970s It sort of began and ended my dependency on hightech 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 In contrast to the high end 2K digital technology used to restore Manhatta and Ballet Mechanique I learned filmmaking decades earlier on a 35mm Oxberry beamsplitter multihead aerialimage bipac optical printer A dinosaur by todays standards and all hand operated prior to the advent of computerassists this machine was precise and exact to the frame SJ Pt 3 took 26 hours to shoot straight thru without one mistake Bruce Posner