R. Bruce Elder
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.
Michael Snow Up Close
(Himself)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
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
Illuminated Texts
(Professor)
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
(Director)
Breath/Light/Birth
(Director)
1857 (Fool's Gold)
(Director)
Illuminated Texts
(Director)
Sweet Love Remembered
(Director)
Permutations and Combinations
(Director)
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
(Director)
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
(Director)
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
(Director)
Flesh Angels
(Director)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
(Director)
Look! We Have Come Through!
(Director)
Newton and Me
(Director)
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
(Director)
Azure Serene
(Director)
She Is Away
(Director)
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
(Director)
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
(Director)
Trace
(Director)
Et Resurrectus Est
(Director)
Crack, Brutal, Grief
(Director)
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
(Director)
Unremitting Tenderness
(Director)
Potamkin
(Thanks)
Eros and Wonder
(Director)
The Young Prince
(Director)
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
(Director)
A Gathering of Crystals
(Director)
Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together
(Director)
Sweet Love Remembered
(Music)
Infunde Lumen Cordibus
(Director)
Illuminated Texts
(Writer)
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
(Director)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
(Writer)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
(Director of Photography)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
(Editor)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
(Producer)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
(Director of Photography)
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
(Director of Photography)
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
(Director)
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
(Director)
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
(Writer)