Bruce Conner Movies

Bruce Conner’s most celebrated film for a reason: it takes historical moments that were replayed over and over on television—chilling...

Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

TELEVISION ASSASSINATION is one of two major works that Bruce Conner began in the days immediately following the Kennedy assassination and the...

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and...

The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown...

The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

A three screen projection comprised of imagery from COSMIC RAY (1961) and EVE-RAY-FOREVER (1965).

Its slow somnambulic rhythm, its animalistic jungle sounds as well as the eerily mixed images create a dream mood that comes closest to my actual...

With a similar dreamy mood like its predecessor "Take the 5:10 to Dreamland" (1976) this clip starts with a boy getting into his bed. The camera...

"A film portrait cut to the tune of Conway Twitty's version of 'Mona Lisa.' Filmed in part at a 1964 show of Conner's artwork in San Francisco, the...

During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied...

Stock footage edited with music to comment on American culture.

Breakaway plays out like a visual symphony. A prototype for the best (but still, lesser) contemporary formalist music videos, like Peter Care’s...

An advertisement for the New York Film Festival which the Festival rejected as being "too fast."

From KQED kinescope with Michael McClure (No longer extant).

Bruce Conner's 1996 revision of his Looking for Mushrooms (1967).

A commentary on the destructive expectations of females in a male dominated society, Marilyn Times Five was made from an old stag film called "The...

In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track...

Jay De Feo started painting THE WHITE ROSE in 1957. When the unfinished painting was removed eight years later it weighed over 2300 pounds.