R. Bruce Elder
Directing · Director · Music · Writer
Born Jun 12, 1947 · Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
Active 1975–present · Awards: Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts
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.
Filmography
The Book of All the Dead — DirectorThe Book of Praise — DirectorLamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985) — Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography · EditorConsolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World (1988) — DirectorIlluminated Texts (1982) — Professor · Director · Writer1857 (Fool's Gold) (1981) — DirectorThe Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979) — Director · Director of PhotographyBurying the Dead (Into the Light) (1993) — DirectorSweet Love Remembered (1980) — Director · MusicConsolations (Love is an Art of Time) (1988) — Director · WriterFlesh Angels (1990) — DirectorEt Resurrectus Est (1994) — DirectorCrack, Brutal Grief (2000) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · SoundA Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy (1997) — Director · Director of PhotographyConsolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing (1988) — DirectorConsolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods (1988) — DirectorPermutations and Combinations (1976) — DirectorBreath/Light/Birth (1975) — DirectorLook! We Have Come Through! (1978) — DirectorBarbara is a Vision of Loveliness (1976) — DirectorNewton and Me (1991) — DirectorShe Is Away (1975) — DirectorExultations: In Light of the Great Giving (1993) — DirectorTrace (1980) — Director