R. Bruce Elder Movies

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

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...

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

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...

"Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed."

Powerful and raw, ‘Crack, Brutal Grief’ is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture,...

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...

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...

Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal,...

Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were...

The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.

"evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of ... archetypal images" Ian Birnie

A beggar imagines himself sitting at the edge of a maelstrom, looking inward at a vortex, observing beings – demonic forms, ghosts, animals,...

A hybrid of analogue and digital techniques in which chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a...

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...

"The film was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (A New Kind of Science) to determine the content...

This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of...

Using optical printing techniques with unusual color processing effects, Unremitting Tenderness offers a series of transformations of a dance...

"Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound ... Elder's latest film .. is a visually lush collage," and "ironic...