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R. Bruce Elder
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
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 cinem…
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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.
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2024
Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together
Movie Director
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2017
Potamkin
Movie Thanks
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2015
A Gathering of Crystals
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- 2012
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2011
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
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2007
The Young Prince
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2004
Infunde Lumen Cordibus
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2003
Eros and Wonder
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2000
Crack, Brutal Grief
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- 1997
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1996
Michael Snow Up Close
Movie Himself
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1994
Et Resurrectus Est
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1993
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
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1993
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
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1992
Azure Serene
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1991
Newton and Me
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1990
Flesh Angels
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- 1988
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988
- 1985
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1985
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
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- 1985
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1982
Illuminated Texts
Movie Professor
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1981
1857 (Fool's Gold)
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1980
Trace
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1980
Sweet Love Remembered
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- 1979
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1978
Look! We Have Come Through!
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1977
Unremitting Tenderness
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1976
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
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1976
Permutations and Combinations
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1975
She Is Away
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1975
Breath/Light/Birth
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The Book of All the Dead
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The Book of Praise
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