Directing
R. Bruce Elder
1947-06-12 · Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
Since 1975, R. Bruce Elder (born 12 June 1947) 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
Illuminated Texts
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
1857 (Fool's Gold)
Sweet Love Remembered
Crack, Brutal Grief
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
Et Resurrectus Est
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Flesh Angels
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together
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?
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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
Crack, Brutal Grief
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
Michael Snow Up Close
Et Resurrectus Est
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
Azure Serene
Newton and Me
Flesh Angels
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
Illuminated Texts
1857 (Fool's Gold)
Trace
Sweet Love Remembered
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Look! We Have Come Through!
Unremitting Tenderness
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
Permutations and Combinations
Breath/Light/Birth
She Is Away
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