R. Bruce Elder Movies

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

The confrontation with death and finitude....Death animates the sense of the intimacy of life whose measureless flow is a danger to the stability of...

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

Inspired by remarks made by Freud, "Eros nowhere makes its intentions more clear than in the desire to make two things one." and by Nietzsche, "What...

"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is...

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

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...

The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.

"Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed."

"evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of ... archetypal images" Ian Birnie

A close container for chance elements. Together with She Is Away, makes apparent some features of the material form of which the entire cycle would...

Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were...

A hybrid of analogue and digital techniques in which chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a...