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...

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

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

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...

A short film documenting the making of Bruce Conner's Breakaway.

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

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

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

A short film created during the production of Cool Hand Luke.

Stock footage edited with music to comment on American culture.

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

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...

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

"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...

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 documentary film exploring the manner in which a determined young man overcame a basic mental defect and became a useful member of society....

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...

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

16mm/Digital, color/b&w/sound Bruce Conner began working on By and By a documentary about The Soul Stirrers several decades ago shooting their...

A film he made in 1969 that rarely gets discussed, and is only barely mentioned even in the monograph 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II. This...