Bruce Conner

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The film retraces Francis' life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his prominence in the United States. It reveals a man in constant struggle with physical maladies and his own demons, but for whom creativity was a powerful life-sustaining force...

An experimental short about a boy who goes to bed and begins to dream.

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)

Short experimental film that combines disjointed images with a serene soundtrack.

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'.

Conner recreates within viewers the feeling of having been at JFK's assassination. (imdb)

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)

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)

Compilation of a variety of stock footage set to music.