R. Bruce Elder Movies
- 1970
Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)
Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)01970HD
- 2003
Eros and Wonder
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A hybrid of analogue and digital techniques in which chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a...
- 1977
Unremitting Tenderness
Unremitting Tenderness01977HD
Using optical printing techniques with unusual color processing effects, Unremitting Tenderness offers a series of transformations of a dance...
- 1980
Trace
Trace01980HD
The memory of a nearly perfect evening.
- 1993
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving01993HD
The titular film of region three of Elder's Book of All the Dead
- 1978
She Is Away
She Is Away01978HD
"evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of ... archetypal images" Ian Birnie
- 1992
Azure Serene
Azure Serene01992HD
"Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound ... Elder's latest film .. is a visually lush collage," and "ironic...
- 1976
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness01976HD
The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.
- 1991
Newton and Me
Newton and Me01991HD
Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were...
- 1978
Look! We Have Come Through!
Look! We Have Come Through!01978HD
"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is...
- 1990
Flesh Angels
Flesh Angels01990HD
"A beatific vision of the imaginary landscape of paradise, inspired by the poetry of ... Blake." Pacific Cinematheque
- 1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods01988HD
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...
- 1976
Permutations and Combinations
Permutations and Combinations01976HD
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...
- 1978
Breath/Light/Birth
Breath/Light/Birth01978HD
Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal,...