R. Bruce Elder

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.

Known For

Homepage http://rbruceelder.com/
Birth Location Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
Born 1947-06-12

Movies

Potamkin Thanks
2017
2015
The Young Prince Director
2007
2004
Eros and Wonder Director
2003
2000
1994
Azure Serene Director
1992
Newton and Me Director
1991
Flesh Angels Director
1990
1985
1982
1982
1981
Trace Director
1980
1980
The Art of Worldly Wisdom Director of Photography
1979
1978
She Is Away Director
1978
1977