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
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
Watching
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
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"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
