R. Bruce Elder Movies
- 2017
Potamkin
Potamkin02017HD
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...
- 1985
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World7.21985HD
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...
- 1980
Sweet Love Remembered
Sweet Love Remembered6.71980HD
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...
- 1993
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)81993HD
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...
- 1982
Illuminated Texts
Illuminated Texts7.11982HD
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...
- 1979
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Art of Worldly Wisdom6.81979HD
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...
- 1988
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)71988HD
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...
- 1997
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 Joy61997HD
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...
- 1996
Michael Snow Up Close
Michael Snow Up Close61996HD
MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....
- 1994
Et Resurrectus Est
Et Resurrectus Est71994HD
"Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed."
- 1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing01988HD
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...
- 2000
Crack, Brutal, Grief
Crack, Brutal, Grief72000HD
Powerful and raw, ‘Crack, Brutal, Grief’ is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture,...
- 1988
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 World01988HD
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...
- 2004
Infunde Lumen Cordibus
Infunde Lumen Cordibus02004HD
"The film was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (A New Kind of Science) to determine the content...
- 2015
A Gathering of Crystals
A Gathering of Crystals02015HD
- 1981
1857 (Fool's Gold)
1857 (Fool's Gold)81981HD
This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of...
- 2007
The Young Prince
The Young Prince02007HD
A beggar imagines himself sitting at the edge of a maelstrom, looking inward at a vortex, observing beings – demonic forms, ghosts, animals,...
- 2011
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?02011HD
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...
- 1985
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation01985HD
- 1985
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 Historian01985HD
Like Ezekiel's vision in the valley of the dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation there occur...