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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
Permutations and Combinations
1976
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
Look! We Have Come Through!
1978
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
1979
Sweet Love Remembered
1980
Trace
1857 (Fool's Gold)
1981
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
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
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
Flesh Angels
1990
Newton and Me
1991
Azure Serene
1992
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
1993
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Et Resurrectus Est
1994
R. Bruce Elder (Director)
R. Bruce Elder
Professor
Anna Pafomow
Student
Henry Jesionka
Diabolus
James D. Smith
Man in workshop with goggles
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My Mom Jayne
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A Toxic Love Story
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Room 237
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Come See Me in the Good Light
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28 Up
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Baraka
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