R. Bruce Elder Trailers
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy TrailerMichael Snow Up Close TrailerConsolations (Love is an Art of Time) Trailer
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.
Most Popular R. Bruce Elder Trailers
Total trailers found: 35
24 October 1993
The titular film of region three of Elder's Book of All the Dead
15 June 2004
"The film was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (A New Kind of Science) to determine the content or colour of the shots, their duration, and the time of their appearance: the palette of effects, and their rhythmical development (from the simple alternations with which the film begins to the complex dynamic structures of its later parts),is entirely the result of computational processes that model natural events.
01 January 2007
A beggar imagines himself sitting at the edge of a maelstrom, looking inward at a vortex, observing beings – demonic forms, ghosts, animals, humans – first rising, and then falling through the vortex: all of them, he realizes have the character they do because of his evanescent mental states.
10 October 1985
Like Ezekiel's vision in the valley of the dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation there occur intimations of final culbute général, of the dissolution of time, of a now that vanishes between the no long and the not yet.
02 March 1991
Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature.
27 January 1990
"A beatific vision of the imaginary landscape of paradise, inspired by the poetry of ... Blake." Pace
21 November 1993
The confrontation with death and finitude....Death animates the sense of the intimacy of life whose measureless flow is a danger to the stability of things.
26 February 2003
A hybrid of analogue and digital techniques in which chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a fantasia of vibrantly coloured alchemical forms that suggest an erotic wonder at all the world’s surfaces.
14 December 1976
The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.
10 November 1977
Using optical printing techniques with unusual color processing effects, Unremitting Tenderness offers a series of transformations of a dance sequence.
01 January 2011
All about red and green in time. Very much inspired by the work of Count Hermann Puckler-Muskau, Adolf Just and, above all, Gerhard Richter.
27 January 1976
A close container for chance elements. Together with She Is Away, makes apparent some features of the material form of which the entire cycle would be composed.
01 January 1996
MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist.
27 January 1988
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways.
20 February 1992
"Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound ... Elder's latest film n
10 October 1985
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994.
27 January 1988
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways.
02 June 2017
In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics.
26 January 1981
This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of the natural world.
07 June 1979
A compelling and revealing exploration of one person's psyche in crisis.... The film is a screen diary of a man in his early 30s afflicted with a life-threatening disease, a man confronting his own mortality.
27 January 1982
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism.
27 January 1980
Inspired by remarks made by Freud, "Eros nowhere makes its intentions more clear than in the desire to make two things one.
01 January 1975
Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune.
30 January 1994
"Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed."
01 January 1997
Elder depicts forms of life that have grown increasingly out of touch with the body, and attempts tog
01 January 2000
Powerful and raw, ‘Crack, Brutal Grief’ is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture, psychology, technology, and the cruelty found in nature.
30 January 1978
"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is heightened to the intensity of a struggle.
27 January 1988
Bruce Elder's Consolations picks up where Lamentations left off in the purgatory of modern existence, and aspires to regain, and reaffirm, a sense of meaning, goodness, beauty and mystery in the empty simulacra of the dead world.
27 January 1988
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways.
01 January 1975
"evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of ... archetypae
30 May 1980
The memory of a nearly perfect evening.
