According to Barbara Scharres, writing in the Reader in 1981, Chicago Super 8 filmmaker Norm Bruns worked at a blazing pace with startling boldness. He purchased his Super 8 camera in 1980 and created 11 films in 10 months. Those early films, according to Scharres are "strikingly in the tradition of Jean Cocteau and of American avant-garde filmmakers like Maya Daren and Curtis Harrington in their concern with personal ritual and the replication of dreamlike states." Most of his films are in swirling black-and-white, and show an amazing confidence in his skill and vision. As he developed as a filmmaker, his sets and costumes and complicated superimpositions and laboratory techniques expanded his palette and allowed for a deepening of his focus on bodies, city life, dreams and rituals. Unfortunately Norm passed away in 1990 and his films have not been seen since.
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Bible (1982) Director |
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Cheez Whiz (1981) Director |
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Piano Dance (1981) Director |
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Potato Circus (1981) Director |
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Le Mannequin (1981) Director |
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Theatre of the Horse and Moon (1980) Director |
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Swim (1980) Director |
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Bed Desert (1980) Director |
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Figure With 14 Trains (1980) Director |
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Bingo (1980) Director |
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Duck (1980) Director |
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The Poet and the Pond (1980) Director |
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The Unusual Book (1980) Director |
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Blue Aura (1980) Director |
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Screen Test (1980) Director |