R. Bruce Elder
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: June 12, 1947 (78 years old)
Place of Birth: Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
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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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
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Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Director
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
Director
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
Director
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
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Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
Writer
Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
1985
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
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Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Director of Photography
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
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Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
