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...
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29 votes
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29 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
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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
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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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
1988 · Documentary · 240 min. · Canada
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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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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Return to Nature! The True Natural Method Of Healing and Living and the True Salvation Of the Soul (S)
2012 · Documentary · 7 min. · Canada
Direction R. Bruce Elder
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