Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner
USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Conner

Born in 1933, McPherson, Kansas, USA. Assemblage, drawing, collage, film, video. Key figure of found-footage film.

"Bruce Conner has been an original influence and innovator for thousands of film makers since 1958. His films, like several others available from Canyon Cinema, have changed the way that film and video productions are seen today. A MOVIE, 1958, is listed in the Library of Congress National Registry of Film, his first video tape production was presented on KQED-TV San Francisco in 1967 and a recent Telluride Film Festival program and symposium was titled: "From Bruce Conner To MTV." His earliest films using rapid-fire editing techniques, compilation footage and the wedding of sound or music to picture have had an enduring effect on motion picture media throughout the world. His influence through so many levels of visual media has remained "underground," because of the unique character of his work, to the point where many individuals are not aware of the original source. The unique qualities of Bruce Conner's work is true independent film: one person concept, production, editing, filming, etc. They exploit the economic poverty of production cost by transforming the detritus and "defects" of the media from base lead into gold by the classic alchemy of creative art. Starting October 1999, a solo exhibition of Bruce Conner works will be exhibited at four museums starting with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis featuring some of the many media that Bruce Conner has mastered: painting, sculpture, drawing, conceptual works, prints, assemblage, collage, photography as well as 8mm and 16mm films. Each film is a feature film even if it is ten seconds long. The title for the show is 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story: Part 2. It is one of a series of seven exhibitions that will ultimately survey his entire collection of dust and badges." - P.F. McMoon (Canyon Cinema 2004)

- Conner, Bruce: "2000 Bc : The Bruce Conner Story Part II". Walker Art Center 1999. ISBN: 0935640630 [also published as hardcover in 2000 by Distributed Art Pub Inc. ISBN: 0935640614].

2004:

Luke (camera, realization)

1982:

America Is Waiting (realization)

1981:

Mea Culpa (realization)

1978:

Mongoloid (realization)

1977:

Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (realization)
Valse Triste (realization)

1976:

Crossroads (realization)

1973:

Marilyn Times Five (realization)

1969:

Permian Strata (realization)

1968:

Coming Attractions (realization)
Antonia Christina Basilotta (realization)

1967:

Report (realization)
The White Rose (realization)
Liberty Crown (realization)
Looking for Mushrooms (realization)

1966:

Breakaway (realization)
Easter Morning Raga (realization)

1965:

Class Picture (realization)
Cosmic Ray III (realization)
Cosmic Ray II (realization)
Ten Second Film (realization)
Cosmic Ray I (realization)
Looking for Mushrooms (realization)

1964:

Vivian (realization)
Television Assassination (realization)
Leader (realization)

1961:

Cosmic Ray (realization)

1958:

A Movie (realization)

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