R. Bruce Elder

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.

  • Title: R. Bruce Elder
  • Popularity: 0.004
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1947-06-12
  • Place of Birth: Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Homepage: http://rbruceelder.com/
  • Also Known As: Richard Bruce Elder
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R. Bruce Elder Movies

  • 1996
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    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    6 1996 HD

    MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

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  • 1979
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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.8 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

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

    1 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

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

    1 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

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  • 1997
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    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

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

    6 1997 HD

    Elder depicts forms of life that have grown increasingly out of touch with the body, and attempts to elicit and experience of the delight that...

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  • 1982
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    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.1 1982 HD

    "Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    7 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

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  • 1978
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    Breath/Light/Birth

    Breath/Light/Birth

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1981
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    1857 (Fool's Gold)

    1857 (Fool's Gold)

    8 1981 HD

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  • 1982
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    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.1 1982 HD

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  • 1980
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    Sweet Love Remembered

    Sweet Love Remembered

    6.7 1980 HD

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  • 1976
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    Permutations and Combinations

    Permutations and Combinations

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

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

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

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

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

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

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1990
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    Flesh Angels

    Flesh Angels

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.8 1979 HD

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  • 1978
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    Look! We Have Come Through!

    Look! We Have Come Through!

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1991
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    Newton and Me

    Newton and Me

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1976
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    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1992
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    Azure Serene

    Azure Serene

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1978
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    She Is Away

    She Is Away

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1993
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    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1993
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    Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

    Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

    8 1993 HD

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  • 1980
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    Trace

    Trace

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1994
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    Et Resurrectus Est

    Et Resurrectus Est

    7 1994 HD

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  • 2000
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    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    7 2000 HD

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  • 1997
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    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

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

    6 1997 HD

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  • 1977
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    Unremitting Tenderness

    Unremitting Tenderness

    1 1977 HD

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  • 2017
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    Potamkin

    Potamkin

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2003
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    Eros and Wonder

    Eros and Wonder

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2007
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    The Young Prince

    The Young Prince

    1 2007 HD

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  • 2011
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    What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?

    What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2015
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    A Gathering of Crystals

    A Gathering of Crystals

    1 2015 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1980
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    Sweet Love Remembered

    Sweet Love Remembered

    6.7 1980 HD

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  • 2004
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    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    1 2004 HD

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  • 1982
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    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.1 1982 HD

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

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

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.8 1979 HD

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  • 1997
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    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

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

    6 1997 HD

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

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

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    7 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    7 1988 HD

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