The Book of All the Dead, R. Bruce Elder's 42-hour-long first cycle, gathers films he made between 1975 and 1994.
21 films
Breath/Light/Birth
1975
She Is Away
1975
Permutations and Combinations
1976
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
1976
Look! We Have Come Through!
1978
Watching
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
1979
Sweet Love Remembered
1980
Trace
1980
1857 (Fool's Gold)
1981
Illuminated Texts
1982
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
1985
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
1985
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
1988
Flesh Angels
1990
Newton and Me
1991
Azure Serene
1992
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
1993
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
1993
Et Resurrectus Est
1994
A 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.
