R. Bruce Elder

Known for DirectingBorn 1947-06-12 (age 78)Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

1857 (Fool's Gold)

Illuminated Texts

Crack, Brutal Grief

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Et Resurrectus Est

Flesh Angels

Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

Sweet Love Remembered

A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

Michael Snow Up Close

Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together

Potamkin

A Gathering of Crystals

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

What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?

The Young Prince

Infunde Lumen Cordibus

Eros and Wonder

Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

Azure Serene

Newton and Me

Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

Trace

Look! We Have Come Through!

Unremitting Tenderness

Permutations and Combinations

Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

Breath/Light/Birth

She Is Away