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info@nbfilmcoop.comThe NB Film Co-op experimental FILM PROGRAMME Presents: filmmaker R. Bruce Elder
Please join Governor-General Award winning filmmaker R. Bruce Elder for the final lecture in the New Brunswick Film Co-op Experimental Film Program Series:
"Cosmological Themes and New Media Technologies: The Body and The Celestial Dance." The Work and Processes of Bruce Elder.
Marshall D'avray Hall, UNB Campus
Dugald Blue Auditorium Room 143
Thursday March 27th, 8-10pm
FREE OF CHARGE
Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, critic and teacher of film studies at Ryerson University. Described by New York filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas as "the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s," Elder combines images, music and text to create works that reflect his interest in philosophy, technology, science, spirituality and the human body. His first major film cycle (20 films), "The Book of All the Dead", inspired by Dante Alighieri's "Commedia" and Ezra Pound's "Cantos", grew out of his preoccupation with the horrors of modernity, its faith in progress and the loss of a sense of what is good and evil.
His current film cycle, "The Book of Praise", makes extensive use of computer-image generation, highlighting his fascination with mathematics and digital technology. . Retrospectives of Prof.
Elder's work have been mounted by The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Cinematheque Quebecoise (Montreal), Senzatitolo (Trento, Italy) and Anthology Film Archives (New York) and he has exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Film Forum, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, and many other centres.
Elder has been a guest lecturer at institutions across North America and around the world and has written books and articles on film, music, poetry and the visual arts. In 2007, Elder was one of the recipients of the Governor-General's award for Visual Arts. Bruce Elder lives in Toronto.
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