R. Bruce Elder

Directing·Jun 12, 1947·Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Since 1975, R. Bruce Elder has been building two formidable bodies of work, as an artist working in the experimental tradition, and as an author of critical texts on art and cinema. His artistic achievements were recognized in 2007 with a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s most prestigious award in those field, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Jonas Mekas, founder of the New York Filmmakers Co-op and principle visionary of the American avant-garde cinema, has dubbed him “the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s.” Something similar could be said of Elder’s monumental works of art criticism. His role as an author has in recent years assumed the task of charting the relationship between cinema and art movements through the twentieth century, as we see in his recent book, DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, his previous, Harmony & Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, and the forthcoming Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect. In 2009, he received the Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation for Harmony + Dissent.

Film	Credit
Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together2024 · Director	Director
A Gathering of Crystals2015 · Director	Director
Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained—The Core of the Body—Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit Culture2012 · Director	Director
What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?2011 · Director	Director
The Young Prince2007 · Director	Director
Infunde Lumen Cordibus2004 · Director	Director
EEros and Wonder2003 · Director	Director
Crack, Brutal Grief2000 · Director	Director
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy1997 · Actor, Director, Director of Photography	Actor, Director, Director of Photography
Michael Snow Up Close1996 · Himself	Himself
Et Resurrectus Est1994 · Director	Director
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)1993 · Director	Director
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving1993 · Director	Director
Azure Serene1992 · Director	Director
Newton and Me1991 · Director	Director
Flesh Angels1990 · Director	Director
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing1988 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods1988 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)1988 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World1988 · Director	Director
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation1985 · Director	Director
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World1985 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian1985 · Director	Director
Illuminated Texts1982 · Professor, Director, Writer	Professor, Director, Writer
1857 (Fool's Gold)1981 · Director	Director
Trace1980 · Director	Director
Sweet Love Remembered1980 · Director	Director
The Art of Worldly Wisdom1979 · Actor, Director, Director of Photography	Actor, Director, Director of Photography
Look! We Have Come Through!1978 · Director	Director
UUnremitting Tenderness1977 · Director	Director
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness1976 · Director	Director
Permutations and Combinations1976 · Director	Director
Breath/Light/Birth1975 · Director	Director
She Is Away1975 · Director	Director