Bibliography
Recordings of Lectures, Presentations, and Interviews
- A video recording of a class I gave on my approach to filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City in February 2019. The talk focussed on my film Eros and Wonder.
- Another version of a video recording of a class I gave on my approach to filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City in February 2019: it is smaller and better suited for slower machines.
- A video introduction to Eros and Wonder, presented as part of Barcelona's ZumZeig's 5th anniversary celebrations.The lighting is poor: it was recorded in a room without curtains.
- Transcription of Jim Shedden Interviews Bruce Elder for the “Reminiscences of Brakhage” Project
- R. Bruce Elder interviews Michael Snow (on video) for the “Reminiscences of Brakhage” Project, October, 2019
- Transcript of R. Bruce Elder interviewing Michael Snow for the “Reminiscences of Brakhage” Project, October, 2019
- A Note on Transsensoriality. When interviewing Snow, I referred to the concept of transsensoriality. Since the concept is not familiar, I prepared a short not on the topic.
Public Presentations
- Announcement of a Talk on Electromorphic Art at PIX Film Gallery in Toronto, by R. Bruce Elder, followed by film screening curated by Stephen Broomer. The event took place on February 9, 2010 and it marked the publication of my book, Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect
- Presentation slides for my talk on Electromorphic Art at PIX Film Gallery
- Poster for Talk and Film Screening at The Factory Media Centre on “Ballet mécanique as machine-art” and tracing the evolution of machinic elements in Fernand Léger’s oeuvre
- A text of a talk I gave in Hamilton on the film Ballet mécanique. The talk was written to demonstrate (contra William Moritz) the central role that painter and theorist Fernand Léger played in that film
- Presentation Slides 2: Presentation slides to accompany a talk defending (against William Moritz) claims for the central role Fernand Léger played in the making of Ballet mécanique
- Recorded Presentation 4: An audio recording of a the session at Hamilton’s Factory Media Centre, marking the publication of Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect
- Poster for an Illustrated Talk on “Radio Art and the Poetics of Electricity,” which explores a chapter in the story of how electrotechnics (the human use of electromagnetic phenomena to intervene in nature) inaugurated a new era in cultural history—this one deadling with the how the radio created a new form of Surrealism in San Francisco
- R. Bruce Elder and Alla Gadassik, “Surrealism in the USSR: A Surrealism that Wasn’t Meant to be” A short essay exploring the Soviet cinema unrealized potential for Surrealism. Published in Conscious hallucinations : filmic surrealism, edited by the Deutsches Filminstitut for the Deutsches Filmmuseum (editor: Svetlana Svyatskaya), 2015
- Poster for an Illustrated Talk on “Radio Art and the Poetics of Electricity,” which explores a chapter in the story of how electrotechnics (the human use of electromagnetic phenomena to intervene in nature) inaugurated a new era in cultural history—this one deadling with the how the radio created a new form of Surrealism in San Francisco
- Presentation Slides 4: Presentation slides for my talk on exploring more generally how electrotechnics (the human use of electromagnetic phenomena to intervene in nature) inaugurated a new era in cultural history
- Recorded Presentation 5: An audio recording of my lecture exploring a chapter in the story of how electrotechnics (the human use of electromagnetic phenomena to intervene in nature) inaugurated a new era in cultural history—this one dealing with the how the radio created a new form of Surrealism in San Francisco. (A video recording is available through the Toronto Metropolitan University Archive.)
- An essay exploring the themes of my Oct 3, 2019 talk exploring the enthusiasm San Francisco poets showed for radio waves coursing through the ether
- Recorded Presentation 6: Jim Shedden interviews Bruce Elder for the “Reminiscences of Brakhage” Project
Press Clippings and Comments about
Work in General
- Govenor General's Award in visual and Media arts Monograph
- Innis Film Society Fall 1989 Fall Schedule
- Cinemateque Ontario: 1990 Fall Film Series
- Innis Film Society Fall 1991 Fall Schedule: Flesh Angels
- Innis Film Society Winter/Spring 1992 Schedule
- Images Festival: Book Of All The Dead
- Filmmaker tries to return thought to art; R. Bruce Elder's complex works get symposium this weekend
- Not your typical popular filmmaker BRUCE ELDER He's famous among his peers and the small but devoted audience for avant-garde films. Today, a symposium in Toronto honours a man for whom movies are the visual equivalent of poetry
- Video Art World - On Bruce Elder
- Programme 4: Eros and Wonder
- Statement by Andrea Picard for the Cinematheque Ontario's Program Guide, on the occasion of the screen of the complete The Book of All the Dead
- Contemporary Authors Profile
- A tribute to R. Bruce Elder: Winner of the 2007 Govenor General's Award in Media arts Film Selection
- Bruce Elder's Acceptance Speech Govenor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Friday March 23, 2007. Rideau Hall
- Bruce Elder's Acceptance Speech Govenor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Friday March 23, 2007. Rideau Hall
- Govenor General's Award in visual and Media arts 2007
- The Book of All the Dead Cinematheque Ontario
- Proiezioni Screening Schedule
- R. Bruce Elder: Celebrated Canadian Filmmaker and Writer
- Anthology Film Archives Retrospective
- Guide to Cinemas Of Canada
- School Of Image Arts: Bruce Elder Retrospective
- A Note on Bruce Elder
- The Sacred Light: In Conversation with R. Bruce Elder
- R. Bruce Elder: Hamilton Connection
- Cosmic Empathy: To R. Bruce Elder with Love
- Programme 6: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Reviews
Reviews and Commentaries on my Films by Others
- Bruce Elder's "Fool's Gold": The Experience of Meaning
- On (Experimental) Film
- L'Arte Necessaria: Bruce Elder Intervistato
- Autobiography
- Bruce Elder Interview Lianne McLarty
- Chaos or the Polyphonic Vision of Artistic Imagination
- Reccent Work from the Canadian Avant-Garde: The Book of All the Dead
- A Comprehensive Guide to more than 650 Canadian Films and Filmmakers
- Filmmaker focuses on consciousness
- Bruce Elder's Lamentations
- Elder aims to recapture our lost sense of good
- Northern Exposures: Recent Canadian Experimental Film
- Anti-100 Years of Cinema Manifesto
- Alchemical Features of Bruce Elder's The Young Prince
- Robert Haller Lecture on Bruce Elder
- The Thinking man's horror flick
- An Interview with R. Bruce Elder on Eros and Wonder
- Dante and Canadian Cinema
- Dante and Film Across a Chasm
- On Canadian Painting and Cinema
- R. Bruce Elder's The Book of all The Dead
- The Redemptive Translation of Cyberspace Trash in Bruce Elder's Film Crack, Brutal, Grief
- Percezione, temporalita e amore nell'estetica di Bruce Elder
- A Collection of Articles on R. Bruce Elder
- Reading Canadian Poetry with its Experimental Films
- A Gathering of Crystals
- Don Snyder essay on Bruce Elder
- Films Transcending Death
- Lamentations: A monument to the dead world part 2: The Sublime Calculation
- The Charity of Erotic Experience: R. Bruce Elder's Cinematic Re-reading of Saint Augustine's Confessions
- Perception, Temporality, and Love in Bruce Elder's Aesthetics (English)
- Perception, Temporality, and Love in Bruce Elder's Aesthetics (Italian)
- Art, the Revitalizing Force of Life: R. Buce Elder's Poetics of Experience
- A Cinema of Cruelty against Virtual Spectacle: Bruce Elder's Crack, Brutal, Grief as underworld Journey (English)
- A Cinema of Cruelty against Virtual Spectacle: Bruce Elder's Crack, Brutal, Grief as underworld Journey (Italian)
- A Cinema of Cruelty against Virtual Spectacle: Bruce Elder's Crack, Brutal, Grief as underworld Journey (Italian 2)
- Concrete Particulars in R. Bruce Elder's Illuminated Texts: A Model for Criticism
- Film without a title rejected by censor
- Toronto Filmmaker wins award in L.A., slap from Ontario
- BACKSTAGE Toronto Film wins L.A. award - The Globe and Mail
- Reviews: Illuminated Texts
- Film leaves a trail of devastated viewers
- Avant-garde filmmaker laments the state of man
- Lamentations (A Monument to a Dead Wold)
- Text As Image: In Some Recent North American Avant-Garde Films
- La Cinema contre la technique: R. Bruce Elder
- Major Film Cycle Ends on Note of Sweetness
- Words of the Elder
- The Canadian Experimental Camera-Child
- Exultations of Bruce Elder
- Challenging Canadian Film
- Filmmaker tries to return thought to art; R. Bruce Elder's complex works get symposium this weekend
- Elder's Eros film asks for meditative surrender - Press Clipping
- Elder's Eros film asks for meditative surrender - Online Article
- Elder Experiments with Eros
- Making a move by math
- Bruce Elder, Lamentations, and beyond
- The Films of R. Bruce Elder: The Evolving Vision
- Reflections on the Violence of Art
- Elder: Artaud after Telsat
- Bruce Elder's film-digital hybrids and materialist historiography
- Christian Roy on Crack, Brutal Grief
- Many Things Lead to Many Things: An Interview with Salvador Amores, focussing on the influence of poetry on The Book of All the deal.
- Special section of Parol, comprising writings (in Italian) on my films. Includes writings by Christian Roy, Boris Pantev, Martin S. Watson, Angela Joosse, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, John Picchione, and a bibliography compiled by Kathryn Elder.
- A Note in Cinema Year Zero, March 2024, on Sweet Love Remembered and Body Positivity.
- Entry on R. Bruce Elder in the Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Entry on The Book of All the Dead in the Canadian Film Encyclopedia (by Bart Testa.)
- An image of a May 19, 1989 typed letter from Stan Brakhage to Gerald O’Grady, on the genesis of his “Space as Menace in Canadian Painting and Film” article.
- Spanish version of Francisco Rojas’s interview with me about my films and filmmaking and their relation to open-form poetry and poetics.
- English-language version of Francisco Rojos’s 2023 interview with me about my films and filmmaking and their relation open-form poetry and poetics
- Robert Haller’s note on Sweet Love Remembered; read at Ryerson University (now TMU) in 1999
Reviews and Responses to My Writing
- Swarming of Poets: An Editorial Reportage
- On Keane's Evening Song
- Image and Identity
- A Body of Vision: Representation of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry by Bruce Elder
- The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertude Stein, and Charles Olson
- Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-Garde Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
- Sounds like Canada: A Reexamination of the development of Canadian Cinema-verite
- Malevich and Richter: An Indeterminate Encounter
- Visionay Film and the "World's Body": Stan Brakhage and Theopoetic
- English-Canadian Cinema since 1945
- Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect
- The Body in Film/Richard Hancox/Richard Kerr: Overlapping
- The Education We Need
- Notes from the Fringe: A pair of Guerilla Canadian filmmakers ponder the sometimes inexplicable whys of their calling
- Roads Not Taken, Avenues Not Explored
- Stop Whining and Get on with the Basic Business of Being British
- Marilyn Brakhage Interview on Domain Of Aura
- Image and Identity
The Cinema We Need Debate
- The Shadow of Canadian cinema: Bruce Elder's imoodest proposal
- A Vindication
- The Cinema we need?
- Politics or Paranoia
- The rites (and wrongs) of the elder or the cinema we got: the critics we need
- The Shadow of Canadian cinema: Bruce Elder's imoodest proposal
- A Vindication
- The Cinema we need
- Desire In Ruins
- Desire In Ruins
- The Cinema we need
- The rites (and wrongs) of the elder or the cinema we got: the critics we need
- Politics or Paranoia
- So, what did Elder say?
- So, what did Elder say?
Reviews of Curatorial Work
- The show that's going abroad
- Berlin is about to get a taste of the Canadian arts scene
- Add for Retospective
- Seeing eye-to-I: Notes on Canadian identity
- Hume Canadian Retrospective
- The Toronto Retroscpective: The courage & the glory
- Germans focus on relationship between cinema and voyeurism Filmmakers look at looking
- Foreign devils adopted and adapted
- Exhibit abounds with a messy vitality
- Body in Film
- LIFT and Body in Film
Press Clippings (primarily relating to presentations of my films)
- Arsenal Programme: Special Guest Bruce Elder
- Das Filmmuseum stellt vor…
- Senzatitolo: Eventi Azioni Esposizioni
- Filmmaker Bruce Elder Screen
- Canadian to discuss his movies
- A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe has been surprised by Joy
- Bruce Elder zu Gast im Arsenal
- Programme 6: Toronto Premiere! R. Bruce Elder's "Crack, Brutal, Grief"
- Bruce Elder "Crack, Brutal, Grief"
- "Crack, Brutal, Grief" R. Bruce Elder
- Body/Machine: A conference on the body/technology interface - Pamphlet
- Crack, Brutal, Grief by R. Bruce Elder - R Buce Elder in Person (flyer)
- Crack, Brutal, Grief by R. Bruce Elder - R Buce Elder in Person (text)
- R. Bruce Elder in person - a rare screening of "Crack, Brutal, Grief"
- L.I.F.T Directors Series presents: An Evening with Bruce Elder (large)
- L.I.F.T Directors Series presents: An Evening with Bruce Elder
- Marathon Screening of R. Bruce Elder's "The Book of All the Dead"
- Stan Brakhage Memorial
- Famed experimental filmmaker explores transformation of self
- Govenor General's Award in visual and Media arts 2007
- A Gathering of Crystals, de R. Bruce Elder (premiere mundial)
- Lamentations: A Monument to a Dead World Part 2: The Sublime Calculation de Bruce Elder
- Not your typical popular filmmaker BRUCE ELDER He's famous among his peers and the small but devoted audience for avant-garde films. Today, a symposium in Toronto honours a man for whom movies are the visual equivalent of poetry.