Bruce Conner
Mea Culpa by BRUCE CONER, 1981, 16mm film
Music : My life in the bush of ghosts by DAVID BYRNE / BRIAN ENO
Courtesy the Conner Family Trust
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BRUCE CONNER‘ legendary avant-garde films are well known for their pioneering use of found footage: mixing old newsreels, training, educational, and science films, cartoons, 16-mm condensed versions of Hollywood westerns and other kinds of B movies that were sold for home entertainment, he transformed and rearranged these images, pixelating some, lingering over others in slow motion with new music, creating dark and sometimes hilarious moods and visual commentaries.
BRUCE didn’t have a camera but he wanted to make films. And he didn’t have any money. So he bought some films at the photography store, sort of home movies, and (filmmaker) LARRY JORDAN showed him how to splice film. He borrowed a splicer from LARRY and he just made a film, which he called ‘A Movie.’ – JEAN CONNER about CONNER‘s first film
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