Norm Bruns
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
1982
- Bible ... (Director)
1981
- Piano Dance ... (Director)
- Potato Circus ... (Director)
- Cheez Whiz ... (Director)
- Le Mannequin ... (Director)
1980
- Figure With 14 Trains ... (Director)
- Bed Desert ... (Director)
- Swim ... (Director)
- The Unusual Book ... (Director)
- Blue Aura ... (Director)
- Duck ... (Director)
- The Poet and the Pond ... (Director)
- Theatre of the Horse and Moon ... (Director)
- Bingo ... (Director)
- Screen Test ... (Director)