R. Bruce Elder Movies

  • 1982
    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.11982HD

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

    Illuminated Texts
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.21985HD

    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...

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
  • 1996
    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    61996HD

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

    Michael Snow Up Close
  • 1980
    Sweet Love Remembered

    Sweet Love Remembered

    Sweet Love Remembered

    6.71980HD

    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...

    Sweet Love Remembered
  • 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 Joy

    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    61997HD

    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...

    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
  • 2015
    A Gathering of Crystals

    A Gathering of Crystals

    A Gathering of Crystals

    02015HD

    A Gathering of Crystals
  • 1979
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.81979HD

    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...

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
  • 2017
    Potamkin

    Potamkin

    Potamkin

    02017HD

    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...

    Potamkin
  • 2000
    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    72000HD

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

    Crack, Brutal, Grief
  • 1994
    Et Resurrectus Est

    Et Resurrectus Est

    Et Resurrectus Est

    71994HD

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

    Et Resurrectus Est
  • 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 World

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

    01988HD

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

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
  • 2004
    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    02004HD

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

    Infunde Lumen Cordibus
  • 1988
    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    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...

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
  • 1993
    Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

    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...

    Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
  • 1981
    1857 (Fool's Gold)

    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...

    1857 (Fool's Gold)
  • 1988
    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    01988HD

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

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
  • 2007
    The Young Prince

    The Young Prince

    The Young Prince

    02007HD

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

    The Young Prince
  • 2011
    What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?

    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...

    What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    01985HD

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
  • 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 Historian

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    01985HD

    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...

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian