R. Bruce Elder
Directing
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.
Known for
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movieA Gathering of Crystals
2015
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movieThe Young Prince
2007
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movieInfunde Lumen Cordibus
2004
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movieCrack, Brutal Grief
2000
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movieEt Resurrectus Est
1994
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movieAzure Serene
1992
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movieNewton and Me
1991
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movieFlesh Angels
1990
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movieLamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
1985
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movieIlluminated Texts
1982
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movie1857 (Fool's Gold)
1981
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movieTrace
1980
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movieSweet Love Remembered
1980
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movieBreath/Light/Birth
1975
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movieShe Is Away
1975
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movieIlluminated Texts
1982
Professor
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movieA Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
1997
Director of Photography
movieLamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
1985
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movieThe Art of Worldly Wisdom
1979
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moviePotamkin
2017
Thanks
movieCrack, Brutal Grief
2000
Cinematography