Bruce Conner
Date of Birth: 18 Nov 1933
Country: USA
Biography: Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography.
Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Actor), 18 (Director)
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Ten Second Film (1965) - Short Film
An advertisement for the New York Film Festival which the Festival rejected as being "too fast" (Wikipedia)
Mongoloid (1978) - Short Film
Varied images, animated and stock footage, set to the song Mongoloid by Devo.
America Is Waiting (1981) - Short Film
Stock footage edited with music to comment on American culture.
Permian Strata (1969) - Short Film
A "bad joke film" by Bruce Conner, in which he skillfully re-edits excerpts from 1949's 'The Life of Paul: On the Road to Damascus' to co-incide with Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35'.
Report (1967) - Short Film
Conner recreates within viewers the feeling of having been at JFK's assassination. (imdb)
Cosmic Ray (1962) - Short Film
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions. (imdb)
Valse Triste (1977) - Short Film
An experimental short about a boy who goes to bed and begins to dream.
Marilyn Times Five (1973) - Short Film
[A]n experimental film by Bruce Conner, that is an exploration of how a film's form can influence the way an audience perceives the film's content. (wikipedia)
Vivian (1965) - Short Film
A film portrait cut to the tune of Conway Twitty's version of 'Mona Lisa.' Filmed in part at a 1964 show of Conner's artwork in San Francisco, the film is also a witty statement about forces that take the life out of art. Vivian Kurz, the subject of the film, is entombed in a glass display case. (filmradar.com)
The White Rose (1967) - Short Film
the movie shows the removal of the "White Rose" from the New York City apartment of female artist Jay DeFeo. (imdb comments)
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976) - Short Film
Short experimental film that combines disjointed images with a serene soundtrack.
Crossroads (1976) - Short Film
The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion (imdb)
Looking for Mushrooms (1967) - Short Film
Bruce Conner described Looking for Mushrooms in the 1975 Film-Makers' Cooperative Catalogue as a "[f]amous documentary containing full information. Special effects by Isauro Nava, Rancho del Cura, Huatla de Jimenez, Mexico. Sound by John Liniment and frenz". (sensesofcinema.com)
Looking for Mushrooms (1996) - Short Film
Bruce Conner described Looking for Mushrooms in the 1975 Film-Makers' Cooperative Catalogue as a "[f]amous documentary containing full information. Special effects by Isauro Nava, Rancho del Cura, Huatla de Jimenez, Mexico. Sound by John Liniment and frenz". (sensesofcinema.com)
Television Assassination (1995) - Short Film
A complex, synthesizing work that weaves together fragments from the flux and flow of that history as it was in the process of being constructed and displayed daily to a nation of spectators. (Letterboxd)