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  • 1996
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    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    6 1996 HD

    MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Michael Snow

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  • 1982
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    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.1 1982 HD

    "Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1979
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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.8 1979 HD

    A compelling and revealing exploration of one person's psyche in crisis.... The film is a screen diary of a man in his early 30s afflicted with a...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1997
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    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    6 1997 HD

    Elder depicts forms of life that have grown increasingly out of touch with the body, and attempts to elicit and experience of the delight that...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    0 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    0 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    7 1988 HD

    Bruce Elder's Consolations picks up where Lamentations left off in the purgatory of modern existence, and aspires to regain, and reaffirm, a sense of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Fothergill

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  • 1981
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    1857 (Fool's Gold)

    1857 (Fool's Gold)

    8 1981 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Sweet Love Remembered

    Sweet Love Remembered

    6.7 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.1 1982 HD

    "Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    0 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1976
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    Permutations and Combinations

    Permutations and Combinations

    0 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    0 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1990
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    Flesh Angels

    Flesh Angels

    0 1990 HD

    "A beatific vision of the imaginary landscape of paradise, inspired by the poetry of ... Blake." Pacific Cinematheque

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  • 1975
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    Breath/Light/Birth

    Breath/Light/Birth

    0 1975 HD

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

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

    0 1988 HD

    "Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole...

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  • 1979
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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.8 1979 HD

    A compelling and revealing exploration of one person's psyche in crisis.... The film is a screen diary of a man in his early 30s afflicted with a...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1978
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    Look! We Have Come Through!

    Look! We Have Come Through!

    0 1978 HD

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

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    Cast: Stephanie Avon

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  • 1976
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    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

    Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

    0 1976 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    Newton and Me

    Newton and Me

    0 1991 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    She Is Away

    She Is Away

    0 1975 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

    Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving

    0 1993 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Trace

    Trace

    0 1980 HD

    The memory of a nearly perfect evening.

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  • 1993
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    Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

    Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

    8 1993 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

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  • 1994
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    Et Resurrectus Est

    Et Resurrectus Est

    7 1994 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    Azure Serene

    Azure Serene

    0 1992 HD

    "Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound ... Elder's latest film .. is a visually lush collage," and "ironic...

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  • 2000
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    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    Crack, Brutal, Grief

    7 2000 HD

    Powerful and raw, ‘Crack, Brutal, Grief’ is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture,...

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  • 1997
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    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    6 1997 HD

    Elder depicts forms of life that have grown increasingly out of touch with the body, and attempts to elicit and experience of the delight that...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1977
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    Unremitting Tenderness

    Unremitting Tenderness

    0 1977 HD

    Using optical printing techniques with unusual color processing effects, Unremitting Tenderness offers a series of transformations of a dance...

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    Cast: Sarah Lockett

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  • 2017
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    Potamkin

    Potamkin

    0 2017 HD

    In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film...

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  • 2011
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    What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?

    What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg?

    0 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    The Young Prince

    The Young Prince

    0 2007 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    A Gathering of Crystals

    A Gathering of Crystals

    0 2015 HD

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  • 2003
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    Eros and Wonder

    Eros and Wonder

    0 2003 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

    Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together)

    0 1970 HD

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  • 1980
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    Sweet Love Remembered

    Sweet Love Remembered

    6.7 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    0 2004 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    Illuminated Texts

    Illuminated Texts

    7.1 1982 HD

    "Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    0 1985 HD

    Like Ezekiel's vision in the valley of the dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation there occur...

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Fothergill

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Fothergill

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Fothergill

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.2 1985 HD

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Fothergill

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  • 1979
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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    6.8 1979 HD

    A compelling and revealing exploration of one person's psyche in crisis.... The film is a screen diary of a man in his early 30s afflicted with a...

    Genre:

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1997
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    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy

    6 1997 HD

    Elder depicts forms of life that have grown increasingly out of touch with the body, and attempts to elicit and experience of the delight that...

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    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1985
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    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    0 1985 HD

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    7 1988 HD

    Bruce Elder's Consolations picks up where Lamentations left off in the purgatory of modern existence, and aspires to regain, and reaffirm, a sense of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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  • 1988
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    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    7 1988 HD

    Bruce Elder's Consolations picks up where Lamentations left off in the purgatory of modern existence, and aspires to regain, and reaffirm, a sense of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: R. Bruce Elder

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