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R. Bruce Elder

Canadian filmmaker · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1947 · age 79

R. Bruce Elder, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, critic, curator, and educator known for his contributions to experimental cinema, film theory, media studies, and aesthetics. His work spans filmmaking, literary criticism, philosophy, communication theory, and the history of avant-garde art.

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A life in dates

2024Alone: All Flesh Shall See It TogetherFilm, Director2012Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained - The Core of the Body - Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit CultureFilm, Director2007The Young PrinceFilm, Director2003Eros and WonderFilm, Director2000Crack, Brutal GriefFilm, Director1996Michael Snow Up CloseFilm, Himself1993Burying the Dead (Into the Light)Film, Director1991Newton and MeFilm, Director1988Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)Film, Director, Writer1982Illuminated TextsFilm, Director, Writer19811857 (Fool's Gold)Film, Director1979The Art of Worldly WisdomFilm, Director1977Unremitting TendernessFilm, Director1975Breath/Light/BirthFilm, Director1947Born12 June 1947

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Awards

Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts

About this person

Elder is particularly known for the forty-two-hour film cycle The Book of All the Dead, his writings on experimental cinema and modernist art, and his scholarship on Stan Brakhage, Marshall McLuhan, George Grant, and the Toronto School of Communication Theory.

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Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1947 · age 79

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