Bruce Conner is an American artist born in 1933 in Kansas. He is known for his work in a variety of mediums such as paintings, drawings, prints, collages, assemblages, and sculpture. He began making short movies in the late 1950s. His first film "A Movie" in 1958 is an excellent example of assemblage film. It is a 12 min non-narrative experimental film edited from preexisting and non original newsreel and other old footage.
Another short Avant- Garde film by Conner is the 1967 "Report" that is listed in the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". It consists of found footage of John F. Kennedy's assassination edited with a soundtrack of radio broadcasts of the event. It is said that the film "perfectly captures Conner's anger over the commercialization of Kennedy's death". The flickering black and white screen followed by looping images of the late president and his wife Jackie Kennedy. Conner uses clever juxtaposition of images that might seem ironically random at first but in truth it symbolizes the shock and confusion associated with the assassination.
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