A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
McPherson, Kansas
Born:
November 18, 1933
Died:
July 7, 2008
Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 - July 7, 2008) was an American artist renowned for his work in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines. He first attracted public attention in the 1950s with his nylon-shrouded assemblages—complex sculptures of found objects such as women's stockings, costume jewelry, bicycle wheels, and broken dolls, often combined with collaged or painted surfaces. Simultaneously during the late 1950s, he began making short movies in a singular style that has since established him as one of the most important figures in postwar independent filmmaking. He used an innovative technique that can best be seen in his first film, "A MOVIE" (1958), which was created by piecing together scraps of B-movies, newsreels, novelty shorts, and other preexisting footage. His subsequent films are most often fast-paced collages of found and new footage, and he was among the first to use pop music for film sound tracks. His films have inspired generations of filmmakers and are now considered to be the precursors of the music video genre.
Director:
1958 A Movie
1962 Cosmic Ray
1965 Ten Second Film
1965 Vivian
1967 Breakaway
1967 Easter Morning Raga
1967 Liberty Crown
1967 Looking for Mushrooms
1967 Luke
1967 Report
1967 The White Rose
1968 Antonia Christina Basilotta
1969 Permian Strata
1973 Marilyn Times Five
1975 Television Assassination
1976 Crossroads
1976 Take the 5:10 to Dreamland
1977 Valse Triste
1978 Mongoloid
1981 America Is Waiting
1981 Mea Culpa
1996 Looking for Mushrooms
2006 His Eye Is on the Sparrow
2006 Three Screen Ray
2008 Easter Morning
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Writer:
1958 A Movie
1962 Cosmic Ray
1965 Ten Second Film
1965 Vivian
1967 Breakaway
1967 Easter Morning Raga
1967 Liberty Crown
1967 Looking for Mushrooms
1967 Luke
1967 Report
1967 The White Rose
1968 Antonia Christina Basilotta
1969 Permian Strata
1973 Marilyn Times Five
1975 Television Assassination
1976 Crossroads
1976 Take the 5:10 to Dreamland
1977 Valse Triste
1978 Mongoloid
1981 America Is Waiting
1981 Mea Culpa
1996 Looking for Mushrooms
2006 His Eye Is on the Sparrow
2006 Three Screen Ray
2008 Easter Morning
???? Eve-Ray-Forever
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.