Directing
R. Bruce Elder
EN cinema · 35 credits
Born
12 June 1947 (age 79)
Birthplace
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also known as Richard Bruce Elder
Since 1975, R. Bruce Elder (born 12 June 1947) 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.
Known for
Filmography
The Young Prince
Director
Crack, Brutal Grief
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Sound
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
Actor, Director, Director of Photography
Michael Snow Up Close
as Himself
Et Resurrectus Est
Director
Azure Serene
Director
Newton and Me
Director
Flesh Angels
Director
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Actor, Director, Writer
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
Director
Illuminated Texts
as Professor, Director, Writer
1857 (Fool's Gold)
Director
Sweet Love Remembered
Director, Music
Trace
Director
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Actor, Director, Director of Photography
She Is Away
Director