Bruce Conner
Birth:
November 18, 1933 (McPherson, Kansas)
Death:
July 7, 2008
Official Website:
None
Major Works:
Easter Morning (2008)
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (2007)
Looking for Mushrooms (1996)
Television Assassination (1995)
America Is Waiting (1981)
Valse Triste (1977)
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976)
Marilyn Times Five (1973)
Report (1967)
Breakaway (1966-67)
Looking for Mushrooms (1960-66)
Breakaway (1966)
Vivian (1965)
Cosmic Ray (1962)
A Movie (1958)
Years Working:
1958
1962 — 1967
Notes:
Received a B.F.A in Art at Nebraska University.
Married Jean Sandstedt on Sept. 30, 1957.
Founded the Rat Bastard Protective Associtation, an informal group of beat artists, in the late ’50s.
Was also a painter and a sculptor.
1988: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
Online Resources:
IMDB: Profile
The Brooklyn Rail: Interview
San Francisco Chronicle: Obituary
Wikipedia: Bio and info
Film Books About Bruce Conner:
The Essential Cinema: Essays on the films in the collection of Anthology Film Archives, Volume One, ed. P. Adams Sitney. (New York University Press and Anthology Film Archives, 1975) (Chapter 14: The Anti-Information Film (Conner’s Report), Ken Kelman, pp. 240-244.)
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (pp. 136-138.)
Video:
None
[...] Bruce Conner Yvonne Rainer Bill [...]
[...] Bruce Conner Born: 1933, McPherson, Kansas (pp. 136-138.) [...]
[...] David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Jim Henson and Guy Maddin; a night of classic avant-garde films by Bruce Conner and Kenneth Anger; a William Wegman retrospective; and a block devoted to Riot Grrrl cinema by [...]
[...] of his fellow avant-garde and experimental filmmaking peers, such as Jonas Mekas, Robert Breer, Bruce Conner and Stan [...]