Conner
Bruce Conner produced his most important work in the 1950s. It’s called ‘A MOVIE’, and is a very distinctive film. The artist didn’t record any film himself; he didn’t want to tell a story. Instead, he chose clips of old films, documentaries and amateur videos, which he edited together to create a beautiful new film. ‘A MOVIE’ includes some very suggestive scenes, which deal with the themes of lightness, destruction, beauty and seduction. After this, Conner produced many other videos in which he combined traffic accidents, tight walk performances, air balloon flights, underwater rockets, parachutists, bridges collapsing, elephants running and snake charmers. Conner is considered the king of assemblage. In the first years of his career, he produced collages with objects but soon realised that with moving images, he could create a visionary and hallucinated world that was much more powerful. And this is how his films were born!
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Bruce Conner produced his most important work in the 1950s. It’s called ‘A MOVIE’, and is a very distinctive film. The artist didn’t record any film himself; he didn’t want to tell a story. Instead, he chose clips of old films, documentaries and amateur videos, which he edited together to create a beautiful new film. ‘A MOVIE’ includes some very suggestive scenes, which deal with the themes of lightness, destruction, beauty and seduction. After this, Conner produced many other videos in which he combined traffic accidents, tight walk performances, air balloon flights, underwater rockets, parachutists, bridges collapsing, elephants running and snake charmers. Conner is considered the king of assemblage. In the first years of his career, he produced collages with objects but soon realised that with moving images, he could create a visionary and hallucinated world that was much more powerful. And this is how his films were born!
