R. Bruce Elder Filmes

  • 2007
    The Young Prince

    The Young Prince

    The Young Prince

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

    The Young Prince
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

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    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    01985HD

    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...

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
  • 1970
    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

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    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)
  • 2003
    Eros and Wonder

    Eros and Wonder

    Eros and Wonder

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    A hybrid of analogue and digital techniques in which chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a...

    Eros and Wonder
  • 1977
    Unremitting Tenderness

    Unremitting Tenderness

    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...

    Unremitting Tenderness
  • 1993
    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

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    The titular film of region three of Elder's Book of All the Dead

    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
  • 1978
    She Is Away

    She Is Away

    She Is Away

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

    She Is Away
  • 1976
    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

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

    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
  • 1991
    Newton and Me

    Newton and Me

    Newton and Me

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    Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were...

    Newton and Me
  • 1978
    Look! We Have Come Through!

    Look! We Have Come Through!

    Look! We Have Come Through!

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    "a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is...

    Look! We Have Come Through!
  • 1988
    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

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

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
  • 1976
    Permutations and Combinations

    Permutations and Combinations

    Permutations and Combinations

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    A close container for chance elements. Together with She Is Away, makes apparent some features of the material form of which the entire cycle would...

    Permutations and Combinations
  • 1978
    Breath/Light/Birth

    Breath/Light/Birth

    Breath/Light/Birth

    01978HD

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

    Breath/Light/Birth