R. Bruce Elder

DirectorCrewActorCinematographerEditor Jun 12 (age 78) Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada 1975–2024 (49 year career)

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Biography

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, …

Known For

Film

Illuminated Texts

Professor

Film

Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

Director

Film

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

6.8 1979

Film

Sweet Love Remembered

Director

Film

Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

Director

Film

1857 (Fool's Gold)

Director

Film

Crack, Brutal Grief

Director

Film

Et Resurrectus Est

Director

Filmography

Acting (7)

Movies (7)

A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

1997

6.0

Michael Snow Up Close

1996

as Himself

6.0

Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

1988

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

1988

Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

Illuminated Texts

as Professor

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

1979

6.8

Crew (38)

Movies (38)

Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together

2024

Director

Potamkin

2017

Thanks

A Gathering of Crystals

2015

Director

Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained—The Core of the Body—Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit Culture

2012

Director