The Book of All the Dead Movies Online Streaming Guide
The Book of All the Dead, R. Bruce Elder’s 42-hour-long first cycle, gathers films he made between 1975 and 1994.
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Permutations and Combinations
January 27, 1976A 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.
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Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
December 14, 1976The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.
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Look! We Have Come Through!
January 30, 1978“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
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She Is Away
November 16, 1978“evokes absence through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of … archetypal images” Ian Birnie
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Breath/Light/Birth
December 8, 1978Video 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.
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
June 7, 1979A compelling and revealing exploration of one person’s psyche in crisis…. The film is a screen diary of a man in his early 30s afflicted with a life-threatening disease, a man confronting his own mortality.
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Sweet Love Remembered
January 27, 1980Inspired 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.”
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1857 (Fool's Gold)
January 26, 1981This film is an act of celebration … He produces — with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement — the ineluctable rhythm and energy of the natural world.
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Illuminated Texts
January 27, 1982“Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism.” - Art Gallery of Ontario
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
January 27, 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
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
January 27, 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
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
January 27, 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
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Flesh Angels
January 27, 1990“A beatific vision of the imaginary landscape of paradise, inspired by the poetry of … Blake.” Pacific Cinematheque
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Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
November 21, 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. (RBE)
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Et Resurrectus Est
January 30, 1994“Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed.”
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