R. Bruce Elder
Directing
Born: June 12, 1947 (age 79) · Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
Highest Rated
Biography
Since 1975, R. Bruce Elder (born 12 June 1947) 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.
Photos (1)
Movies (6)
Illuminated Texts
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Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
1988
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
1997
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
1988
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
1979
Self / Appearances (1)
Directing (31)
Illuminated Texts
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
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Azure Serene
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Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
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Crack, Brutal Grief
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Infunde Lumen Cordibus
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A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
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Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together
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Trace
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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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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
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Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
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1857 (Fool's Gold)
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Et Resurrectus Est
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Flesh Angels
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Breath/Light/Birth
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Sweet Love Remembered
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Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
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The Young Prince
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A Gathering of Crystals
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Look! We Have Come Through!
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Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
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She Is Away
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Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
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Permutations and Combinations
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Newton and Me
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What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
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Writing (3)
Producing (1)
Other Crew (9)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Editor
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Director of Photography
Crack, Brutal Grief
Cinematography
Crack, Brutal Grief
Editor
Crack, Brutal Grief
Sound
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
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Potamkin
Thanks
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Director of Photography
Sweet Love Remembered
Music