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Bruce Wood: Edge Forces, 1976
16mm film, silent, black & white

For a short period in the 1970s, then-Chicago-based filmmaker Bruce Wood created several
amazing and intensely beautiful black and white abstract films. And then he stopped; not an
uncommon story. In recent years growing attention has been paid to "forgotten" regional
filmmakers around the country - and Chicago is no exception. Hidden gems are being
rediscovered and shining again years after they were made.

Bruce Wood studied painting, printmaking, and filmmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art
(BFA) and enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), to study filmmaking
under Stan Brakhage. It's easy to see the painterly qualities in his films. One can feel possible
influences from Malevich and Mondrian on one side to the abstract expressionism of Pollack
and De Kooning on the other. But Wood's films also hint at a wide history of experimental
filmmaking as well, from early abstract pioneers such as Vikking Eggeling and Hans Richter to
the lyrical work of Bruce Baillie and Stan Brakhage to the then-current work of Structuralist
filmmakers.

Despite the many threads to be found in Wood's films, they aren1t "poor copies" of other artists'
work - he has a style and feel that seems quite unique and individual –White Light Cinema


"Bruce Wood's films are among the most sensual of any "abstract" animated work ever made.
Projected, they generate a fluid stream of organic images in a carefully controlled post-cubist
space comparable to the work of painters like Jackson Pollock. Viewed one frame at a time,
(which is the way much of the footage is shot), they recall the rich lines and textures of such
master etchers as Rembrandt. Wood's use of camera movement during the exposure of each
individual frame - like drawing - together with the illusion of movement in projection make his
films both beautiful and unique." (Bill Judson, Curator of Film, Museum of Art, Carnegie
Institute)]

Bruce Wood is currently an oil painting conservator, and art auctioneer at http://www.WoodshedArtAuctions.com