About

Known credits:
49
Birthday:
1947-06-12
Place of birth:
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
Website:
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R. Bruce Elder

Overview

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.

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Acting
1997 A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy Actor 59
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1996 Michael Snow Up Close Actor Himself 59
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1988 Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods Actor N/A
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1988 Consolations (Love is an Art of Time) Actor 59
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1988 Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing Actor N/A
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1982 Illuminated Texts Actor Professor 59
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1979 The Art of Worldly Wisdom Actor 59
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Directing
2015 A Gathering of Crystals Directing Director N/A
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2011 What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg? Directing Director N/A
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2007 The Young Prince Directing Director N/A
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2004 Infunde Lumen Cordibus Directing Director N/A
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2003 Eros and Wonder Directing Director N/A
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2000 Crack, Brutal, Grief Directing Director 59
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1997 A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy Directing Director 59
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1994 Et Resurrectus Est Directing Director N/A
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1993 Burying the Dead (Into the Light) Directing Director N/A
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1993 Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving Directing Director N/A
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1992 Azure Serene Directing Director N/A
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1991 Newton and Me Directing Director N/A
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1990 Flesh Angels Directing Director N/A
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1988 Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods Directing Director N/A
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1988 Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World Directing Director N/A
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1988 Consolations (Love is an Art of Time) Directing Director 59
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1988 Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing Directing Director N/A
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1985 Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation Directing Director N/A
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1985 Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World Directing Director 59
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1985 Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian Directing Director N/A
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1982 Illuminated Texts Directing Director 59
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1981 1857 (Fool's Gold) Directing Director 59
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1980 Trace Directing Director N/A
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1980 Sweet Love Remembered Directing Director 59
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1979 The Art of Worldly Wisdom Directing Director 59
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1978 Look! We Have Come Through! Directing Director N/A
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1977 Unremitting Tenderness Directing Director N/A
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1976 Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness Directing Director N/A
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1976 Permutations and Combinations Directing Director N/A
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1975 She Is Away Directing Director N/A
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1975 Breath/Light/Birth Directing Director N/A
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Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together) Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1988 Consolations (Love is an Art of Time) Writing Writer 59
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1985 Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World Writing Writer 59
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1982 Illuminated Texts Writing Writer 59
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Production
1985 Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World Production Producer 59
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Sound
1980 Sweet Love Remembered Sound Music 59
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Camera
1997 A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy Camera Director of Photography 59
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1985 Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World Camera Director of Photography 59
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1979 The Art of Worldly Wisdom Camera Director of Photography 59
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Crew
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Editing
1985 Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World Editing Editor 59
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