Filmmaker Bruce Conner dies…
July 10th, 2008
Bruce Conner, RIP
Jesse Walker | July 10, 2008, 8:30am
The great beatnik filmmaker Bruce Conner has died at age 74. No director has surpassed Conner’s ability to assemble preexisting found footage into something entirely new; in experimental movies rangling from his Zapruder-meets-Owsley short Television Assassination to his Devo video Mongoloid to his haunting dream-film Valse Triste, he laid the groundwork for the current explosion of remixes and mash-ups.
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This should not stop you from taking the 5:10 to Dreamland…
Since the first time I saw a Bruce Conner film, I have been haunted by the images he produced. I am sure that I am not the only one. In fact, I am almost sure that the Science fiction writer William Gibson was haunted by Bruce Conner’s films when he wrote the book Pattern Recognition. If he wasn’t, I was.