R. Bruce Elder Movies

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 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...

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

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

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...

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

This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of...

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

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

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...

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

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