Bruce Conner Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1967
    Breakaway

    Breakaway

    Breakaway

    6.51967HD

    Breakaway plays out like a visual symphony. A prototype for the best (but still, lesser) contemporary formalist music videos, like Peter Care’s...

    Breakaway
  • 2004
    Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

    Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

    Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

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    The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his...

    Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
  • 1968
    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    Underground New York

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    A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

    Underground New York
  • 1976
    Crossroads

    Crossroads

    Crossroads

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    The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown...

    Crossroads
  • 1958
    A Movie

    A Movie

    A Movie

    6.51958HD

    Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

    A Movie
  • 1967
    Luke

    Luke

    Luke

    6.51967HD

    A short film created during the production of Cool Hand Luke.

    Luke
  • 1965
    Vivian

    Vivian

    Vivian

    6.81965HD

    "A film portrait cut to the tune of Conway Twitty's version of 'Mona Lisa.' Filmed in part at a 1964 show of Conner's artwork in San Francisco, the...

    Vivian
  • 1962
    Cosmic Ray

    Cosmic Ray

    Cosmic Ray

    6.41962HD

    Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and...

    Cosmic Ray
  • 1981
    Mea Culpa

    Mea Culpa

    Mea Culpa

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    In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track...

    Mea Culpa
  • 2008
    Easter Morning

    Easter Morning

    Easter Morning

    4.52008HD

    Departing from an inimitable film repertoire of tour-de-force editing technique, visual comedy, and apocalyptic themes, avant-garde master Bruce...

    Easter Morning
  • 1986
    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

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    Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
  • 1977
    Valse Triste

    Valse Triste

    Valse Triste

    61977HD

    With a similar dreamy mood like its predecessor "Take the 5:10 to Dreamland" (1976) this clip starts with a boy getting into his bed. The camera...

    Valse Triste
  • 1978
    Mongoloid

    Mongoloid

    Mongoloid

    5.31978HD

    A documentary film exploring the manner in which a determined young man overcame a basic mental defect and became a useful member of society....

    Mongoloid
  • 1969
    Permian Strata

    Permian Strata

    Permian Strata

    71969HD

    A film he made in 1969 that rarely gets discussed, and is only barely mentioned even in the monograph 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II. This...

    Permian Strata
  • 1967
    Report

    Report

    Report

    6.11967HD

    Bruce Conner’s most celebrated film for a reason: it takes historical moments that were replayed over and over on television—chilling...

    Report
  • 1967
    Liberty Crown

    Liberty Crown

    Liberty Crown

    01967HD

    From KQED kinescope with Michael McClure (No longer extant).

    Liberty Crown
  • 1964
    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    01964HD

    A short film documenting the making of Bruce Conner's Breakaway.

    Pas de Trois
  • 2002
    Battle Stations – A Navel Adventure

    Battle Stations – A Navel Adventure

    Battle Stations – A Navel Adventure

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    Starring Bruce Conner, a belly dancer, a geiger counter, and a toxic waste dump.

    Battle Stations – A Navel Adventure
  • 1967
    The White Rose

    The White Rose

    The White Rose

    6.91967HD

    Jay De Feo started painting THE WHITE ROSE in 1957. When the unfinished painting was removed eight years later it weighed over 2300 pounds.

    The White Rose