R. Bruce Elder Movies
- 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...
- 1970
Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)
Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)01970HD
- 2003
Eros and Wonder
Eros and Wonder02003HD
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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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,...