R. Bruce Elder
Biography
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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Movies (35)
Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together
Director (Directing)
2024
Potamkin
Thanks (Crew)
2017
A Gathering of Crystals
Director (Directing)
2015
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
Director (Directing)
2012
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
Director (Directing)
2011
The Young Prince
Director (Directing)
2007
Infunde Lumen Cordibus
Director (Directing)
2004
Eros and Wonder
Director (Directing)
2003
Crack, Brutal Grief
Director (Directing)
2000
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
1997
Michael Snow Up Close
as Himself
1996
Et Resurrectus Est
Director (Directing)
1994
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Director (Directing)
1993
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
Director (Directing)
1993
Azure Serene
Director (Directing)
1992
Newton and Me
Director (Directing)
1991
Flesh Angels
Director (Directing)
1990
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
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
Director (Directing)
1988
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
Director (Directing)
1985
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Director (Directing)
1985
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
Director (Directing)
1985
Illuminated Texts
as Professor
1982
1857 (Fool's Gold)
Director (Directing)
1981
Trace
Director (Directing)
1980
Sweet Love Remembered
Director (Directing)
1980
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
1979
Look! We Have Come Through!
Director (Directing)
1978
Unremitting Tenderness
Director (Directing)
1977
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
Director (Directing)
1976
Permutations and Combinations
Director (Directing)
1976
Breath/Light/Birth
Director (Directing)
1975
She Is Away
Director (Directing)
1975