R. Bruce Elder
Directing
Born 1947-06-12
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Since 1975, R. Bruce Elder has been building two formidable bodies of work, as an artist working in the experimental tradition, and as an author of critical texts on art and cinema. His artistic achievements were recognized in 2007 with a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s most prestigious award in those field, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Jonas Mekas, founder of the New York Filmmakers Co-op and principle visionary of the American avant-garde cinema, has dubbed him “the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s.” Something similar could be said of Elder’s monumental works of art criticism. His role as an author has in recent years assumed the task of charting the relationship between cinema and art movements through the twentieth century, as we see in his recent book, DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, his previous, Harmony & Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, and the forthcoming Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect. In 2009, he received the Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation for Harmony + Dissent.
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Filmography
Directing
35 credits
Illuminated Texts
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Unremitting Tenderness
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Trace
A Gathering of Crystals
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Sweet Love Remembered
The Young Prince
Flesh Angels
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
Azure Serene
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
The Book of All the Dead
Crack, Brutal Grief
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
Infunde Lumen Cordibus
Breath/Light/Birth
Newton and Me
Et Resurrectus Est
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
She Is Away
Permutations and Combinations
Eros and Wonder
Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
Look! We Have Come Through!
The Book of Praise
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
1857 (Fool's Gold)
Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained—The Core of the Body—Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit Culture
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6 credits
Potamkin
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Sweet Love Remembered
Crack, Brutal Grief
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
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3 credits
Writing
3 credits
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