Illuminated Texts
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"A very demanding work of great complexity and rigor, ILLUMINATED TEXTS presents itself as a great debate between nature and technology, unity and dissolution, the divine and demonic, and irrecoverable past and the terrible velocity of time. Following on Elder's previous film, the autobiographical ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM, and the structural essay in history, 1857: FOOL's GOLD, ILLUMINATED TEXTS reenacts this time on a single site, both the task of constructing a self and the progression of historical agony. Although prolix in his use of texts–acted one, superimposed on the image, spoken in voiceovers and proliferate in the range of his imagery, Elder has structured ILLUMINATED TEXTS classically as inexorable movement from paradise to apocalypse, of in the formal terms, the film uses from plenitude to fragmentation. It is a sign of Elder's continuing commitment to a romantic sensibility making all his movies that the most horrific section of ILLUMINATED TEXTS, its apocalyptic conclusion is also the most stunning 45 minutes Elder has so far committed to film." –Bart Testa, Canadian Images, 1983
Films
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She Is Away
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 13 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Permutations and Combinations
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 7.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 55 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Sweet Love Remembered
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 12.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
1857: (Fool's Gold)
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 24 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Lamentations: Part One (Reels 1-5 Of 11) The Dream of the Last Historian
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 210 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Lamentations: Part Two (Reels 6-11 of 11) the Sublime Calculation
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 240 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Surprised By Joy
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 200 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Crack, Brutal, Grief
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 80 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Bruce Elder
Bruce Elder16mm, color, sound, 106 minRental format: 16mm