A short experimental film culled from archival footage of the 1920s gospel group The Soul Stirrers and of R.H. Harris, the group's original lead singer.

Known for assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs and conceptual events, Bruce Conner turned in the late 1950s to short films made in a fast-paced collage style that established him as an important figure in postwar independent filmmaking. Considered to be the precursor of the music video genre, Conner’s work was among the first to use pop music for film sound tracks. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, a Ford Foundation Fellowships Grant and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His films and artwork are represented in the collections of major museums and archives in Europe and North America, including the Harvard Film Archives, la Cinémathèque Francaise, the Guggenheim Museum and the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris. A Movie, his first film, was selected for the U.S. National Film Registry at the Library of Congress; it is one of the few American experimental films deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically important.” He has been a production and editing advisor to a number of producers and directors.

BFA, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Brooklyn Museum of Art School