With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Films
His innovative technique of skillfully montaged shots from pre-existing borrowed or found footage can be seen in his first film A MOVIE (1958). " Generally these works do not have precise meanings but some of them suggest what Conner saw as the discarded beauty of modern America the deforming impact of society on the individual violence against women and consumerism.

Bruce Conner (November 18 1933 – July 7 2008) was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage film drawing sculpture painting collage and photography among other disciplines.