R. Bruce Elder Movies

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

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

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

"A beatific vision of the imaginary landscape of paradise, inspired by the poetry of ... Blake." Pacific Cinematheque

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

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

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...

"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is...

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

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

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. A...

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

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...

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