R. Bruce Elder Movies

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

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

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 film was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (A New Kind of Science) to determine the content...

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

The memory of a nearly perfect evening.

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...

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

"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...