Norm Bruns

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.

• Potato Circus

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• Blue Aura

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• Cheez Whiz

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  The Unusual Book

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• Le Mannequin

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• Piano Dance

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• Bible

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  Duck

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  Swim

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  Bed Desert

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• 1982BibleDirector
• 1981Cheez WhizDirector
• 1981Piano DanceDirector
• 1981Potato CircusDirector
• 1981Le MannequinDirector
• 1980Theatre of the Horse and MoonDirector
• 1980Blue AuraDirector
• 1980Screen TestDirector
• 1980SwimDirector
• 1980Bed DesertDirector
• 1980Figure With 14 TrainsDirector
• 1980BingoDirector
• 1980DuckDirector
• 1980The Poet and the PondDirector
• 1980The Unusual BookDirector