Cinematography: R. Bruce Elder

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by R. Bruce Elder. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Art of Worldly Wisdom

1979 · Documentary · 55 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Plot Composition from journals kept during 1976-78. Moving Kodak snapshots taken during travels abroad and while at work back home; random glimpses of sites seen and persons visited, fragments of afternoon...

8.1

29 votes

8.1

29 votes

1857 (Fool's Gold)

1981 · Documentary · 26 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

8.0

21 votes

8.0

21 votes

Infunde Lumen Cordibus (S)

2004 · Documentary · 22 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

7.4

27 votes

7.4

27 votes

She Is Away (S)

1976 · Documentary · 13 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

6.8

27 votes

6.8

27 votes

Breath/Light/Birth (S)

1975 · Documentary · 6 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

6.6

26 votes

6.6

26 votes

Permutations and Combinations (S)

1976 · Documentary · 8 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

6.4

30 votes

6.4

30 votes

Barbara Is a Vision of Loveliness (S)

1976 · Documentary · 8 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

6.3

27 votes

6.3

27 votes

Trace (S)

1980 · Documentary · 1 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

5.9

23 votes

5.9

23 votes

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

1988 · Documentary · 220 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Cast R. Bruce Elder · James D. Smith

Plot The absence of knowledge of the Good is madness. Still, in our age, Being manifests itself only in the mode of absence. "It is a time of the gods that...

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Burying the Dead (Into the Light)

1993 · Documentary · 95 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder · Alexa-Frances Shaw

Plot "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 things." R. Bruce Elder.

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Et Resurrectus Est

1994 · Documentary · 135 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder · Alexa-Frances Shaw

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

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Crack, Brutal Grief

2000 · Documentary · 122 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Plot Powerful and raw, Crack, Brutal, Grief is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture, psychology, technology, and the cruelty found in nature. The film acts...

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

1997 · Documentary · 100 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Plot Having recently completed his monumental film cycle, 'The Book of All the Dead,' Elder begins a new cycle - 'The Book Of Praise' - with 'A Man Whose Life Was...

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Direction R. Bruce Elder

Plot Very much inspired by the statement I consider belongs among the greatest expressions of contemporary religious faith, Simone Weil's "Faith is the experience that the intelligence is enlightened by love"....

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

1988 · Documentary · 220 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Plot What is given us and draws from us our loving is Goodness itself. Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime that solicits the...

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Brakhage

1998 · Documentary · 74 min. · United States

Direction Jim Shedden

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Lamentations a Monument for the Dead World

1985 · Movie · 437 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Cast Michael Cartmell · Robert Fothergill · Kristina Jones · David King

Plot Like Ezekiel’s vision in the valley of dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation occur intimations of the final culbute...

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Look! We Have Come Through! (S)

1978 · Documentary · 12 min. · Canada

Direction R. Bruce Elder

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