R. Bruce Elder Movies

Inspired by remarks made by Freud, "Eros nowhere makes its intentions more clear than in the desire to make two things one." and by Nietzsche, "What...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The titular film of region three of Elder's Book of All the Dead

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