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Visit Black Zero storeVideo transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy in this most mysterious of events.
6 min. b&w 1975"compelling and revealing exploration of one person's psyche in crisis" Linda Gross
"combines elaborate split-screen and multi-voice soundtrack to produce a self-portrait at once satiric and poignant." Art Gallery of Ontario
55 min. colour 1979
Audience Award, Montreal Poetry Film Festival Honorable Mention, San Francisco Poetry Film Festival
"an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of the natural world." Carole Zucker
25 min. colour 1981
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedia in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism." Art Gallery of Ontario
180 mins. colour 1982
A "meditation that deals with the state of human consciousness in the postmodern world ... a truly monumental film." Katie Russell
3:21:24 min. colour 1985Inspired 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 must these people have suffered to have become this beautiful."
14 min. colour 1980
"transcends conventional form in an accessible, exciting shape that is likely to change the way all of us see movies" Robert Haller
4:00:00 min. colour 1985
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 be composed.
8 min. colour 1976"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways." Bart Testa
"Elder is on the right track, the only track, despite the overbearing length, is harmonious, lucid and emotional." Helen Knode
220 min. colour 1988"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways." Bart Testa
"Elder is on the right track, the only track, despite the overbearing length, is harmonious, lucid and emotional." Helen Knode
220 min. colour 1988"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways." Bart Testa
"Elder is on the right track, the only track, despite the overbearing length, is harmonious, lucid and emotional." Helen Knode
240 min. colour 1988"A beatific vision of the imaginary landscape of paradise, inspired by the poetry of ... Blake." Pacific Cinematheque
"the latest image technology and exotic computer mathematics like fractals and cellular automata rhym[ed] ... with Dante's medieval cosmology ... a heady blend of the high-tech and the antique ... that dazzles the eye." Bart Testa
110 min. colour 1990
"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is heightened to the intensity of a struggle." Joyce Nelson
12 min. b&w 1978Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were composed of "certain aetheral spirits or vapours"; one ... is the ether, "the succus nutritius of the earth, or primary substance"; the second substance disseminated through the first, is light.
110 min. colour 1990
Canadian Film Award, Best Experimental Film
The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.
8 min. b&w 1976
"Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound ... Elder's latest film .. is a visually lush collage," and "ironic attempt to construct a Divine Comedy for modern times." Jim Shedden
95 min. colour 19923-2.jpg)
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Canadian Film Award, Best Experimental Film
"evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of ... archetypal images" Ian Birnie
13 min. colour 1976Moves toward the vision of time when Heaven descends to earth and makes all earth one with Heaven ... when the outside becomes as inside, and the inside as the outside; when the male and the female become one and the same ... when the end returns to the beginning and the beginning finds completion in the end.
90 min. colour 1993The confrontation with death and finitude ... Death animates the sense of the intimacy of life whose measureless flow is a danger to the stability of things.
90 min. colour 1993The memory of a nearly perfect evening.
1 min. colour 1980"Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed."
135 min. colour 1994
