EASTER MORNING
Bruce Conner
American, 1933–2008
2008
An 8mm color-and-sound film in which Bruce Conner assembles fleeting domestic and seaside images into a non-narrative, dreamlike meditation on memory and loss.
What would strike you is the grainy, sunlit silhouette of a seated figure framed by bright window panes and the distant sea, the image flickering and blooming with painterly color as if it were a half-remembered moment.
It continues Conner’s pioneering work with found-footage montage, showing how associative editing transforms ordinary glimpses into poetic, emotionally charged sequences that helped define postwar experimental cinema.
Medium
8mm film (color, sound)
Dimensions
10 min.
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Credit
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of The Conner Family Trust
Accession
1752.2015
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