R. Bruce Elder Movies
- 1982
Illuminated Texts
Illuminated Texts7.61982HD
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...
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- 1977
Unremitting Tenderness
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Using optical printing techniques with unusual color processing effects, Unremitting Tenderness offers a series of transformations of a dance...
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- 2017
Potamkin
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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...
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- 1992
Azure Serene
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"Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound ... Elder's latest film .. is a visually lush collage," and "ironic...
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- 1985
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World8.31985HD
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...
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- 1978
Look! We Have Come Through!
Look! We Have Come Through!81978HD
"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is...
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- 1980
Trace
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The memory of a nearly perfect evening.
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- 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 World91988HD
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...
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- 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 Joy81997HD
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...
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- 1993
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)91993HD
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...
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- 2015
A Gathering of Crystals
A Gathering of Crystals82015HD
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- 1996
Michael Snow Up Close
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MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....
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- 1988
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)7.51988HD
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...
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- 1994
Et Resurrectus Est
Et Resurrectus Est8.51994HD
"Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed."
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- 2012
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 Culture
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 Culture82012HD
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- 1979
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Art of Worldly Wisdom7.31979HD
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...
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- 1993
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving101993HD
The titular film of region three of Elder's Book of All the Dead
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- 1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing81988HD
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...
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- 1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods81988HD
"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...
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- 1985
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
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