R. Bruce Elder Movies

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...

The memory of a nearly perfect evening.

"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

A beggar imagines himself sitting at the edge of a maelstrom, looking inward at a vortex, observing beings – demonic forms, ghosts, animals,...

This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of...

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...

Powerful and raw, ‘Crack, Brutal, Grief’ is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture,...

Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal,...

Using optical printing techniques with unusual color processing effects, Unremitting Tenderness offers a series of transformations of a dance...

"evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of ... archetypal images" Ian Birnie

The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.

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...