Bruce Baillie (September 24, 1931 - April 10, 2020) was an American cinematic artist and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. In 1961, Baillie, along with friend and fellow cinematic artist Chick Strand, among others, founded San Francisco Cinematheque.
Original video in progress, in three Parts: !. "Salute" (Including Entr' Acte). !!. "Night" (in-progress, not yet incl. here). III "Light" (excerpt segment incl. here, from Cavite, The Philippines). 1/15. My final work. "In the night, with none bu ...
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A short film by Bruce Baillie, made in 1966, but never released. It was restored by Academy Film Archives, Los Angeles. ...
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Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival. Ranging from home movies to political essays, musical sketches to abstract studies, these "little films" form a unique anth ...
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An ardent tribute to filmmaker Robert Fulton (who died in a plane crash in 2002) by Canyon Cinema co-founder Bruce Baillie, made for the occasion of a screening of Fulton's work arranged by Dominic Angerame not quite a decade after his passing. ...
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Filmmaker Bruce Baillie curated a Canyon Cinema program in 2005 dedicated to the work of Will Hindle (with whom he collaborated from time to time during the 1960s and early-1970s). For the occasion, Baillie (along with his daughter, Wind) made this short i ...
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SALUTE, the first installment of Bruce Baillie's proposed three-part final film, MEMOIRS OF AN ANGEL, chronicles (in collage form) the legendary filmmaker's time in the Navy and beyond. The subsequent installments, NIGHT and LIGHT, are still works-in-progr ...
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These scenes are a one-minute, condensed version of the conclusion to my last work, Memories of an Angel. The scene of children was shot in the Phillipines recentely, including my daughter, Wind Baillie. The birds, near our home in Washington State. The co ...
Watch NowMagic hour in Chapala, Jalisco. A previously unseen, edited section of film gleaned from Baillie's sprawling scrolls spanning several decades that now comprise his 12-hour unreleased "Magic Box" series. Julio en Chapala was shot during the period when Bail ...
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This video work often used by the filmmaker to introduce, in his absence, film programs scheduled in distant venues. Created also as formal Introduction to an eleven-hour archival collection of unfinished films. ...
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The film proper begins as Baillie takes the passenger seat of an older Honda and films an hour-long drive in the rain. Baillie's attention moves from passing images on the roadside to other vehicles to the raindrops that squirm across the windshield. Under ...
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"For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving." These words are typed across the screen at the outset of THE P-38 PILOT, Bruce Baillie's experimental video portrait of a former pilot outraged by old age and bitter with reg ...
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A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of footage of Stan Brakhage shot by filmmaker Bruce Baillie. (Marilyn Brakhage) "P.S. Images of myself in TR ...
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A personal and experimental film by San Francisco Bay area avant-garde filmmaker, Bruce Baillie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016. ...
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Skin, eyes, knees, horses, hair, sun, earth. Old song of Mexican hero, Valentin, sung by blind Jose Santollo Nadiso en Santa Cruz de la Soledad. ...
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Six uncut camera rolls to be shown with QUICK BILLY. The 'rolls' took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and Stan Brakhage, in the winter of 1968-69. ...
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Inspired by a lesson from Erik Satie, a film in the form of a street: Castro Street, running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California. ...
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One of San Francisco Cinematheque co-founder Bruce Baillie's sensuous tone poems, TUNG is a portrait of a friend; sandy skin and flaxen hair in the early-morning light. ...
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The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My Life" plays on the soundtrack. At the end of the 3 minute film, the camera tilts up to the blue sky just as ...
Watch NowBy the "Canyon Cinema Documentary Film Unit" - (Paul Tulley, Bruce Baillie, etc). Made in Spring, '66 for a small community of Indian people near Laytonville, California. ...
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It is a picture of me in a stream saluting the audience on the soundtrack. ...
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"One continuous, intimate shot from within the commune…Being is seen as transitory; everything is in the infinite process of becoming." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. ...
Watch NowKind of a "News," for the people of the 24-hour a day vigil around the US Marine Ammunition Depot at Port Chicago, California. ...
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Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented ...
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An experimental film dedicated to the Dakota Sioux, which follows the form of the Christian Mass. A series of images of contemporary America interwoven with the ritual spiriting away of a dead Indian. ...
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Made for the Oakland Public Schools on an experimental series of classes in the arts. ...
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Bruce Baillie's Mr. Hayashi might be thought of as a putative East Coast story transformed by a West Coast sensibility. The narrative, slight as it is, mounts a social critique of sorts, involving the difficulty the title character, a Japanese gardener, ha ...
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Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katange by UN soldiers. ...
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Made on the north coast of California, in Mendocino, combining spontaneity and preconception in a film that is essentially a short lesson in feature form. ...
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Set to the music of Hindemith, filmed entirely in a Gothic cathedral and edited to precision counter-point. An almost somber beginning that rises to brilliant exaltation. As with PASTORALE, extremely innovative for its day and even now. Entire film was an ...
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One of the artist's "newsreels" from the early 1960s, The Peace Rally intercuts footage from an anti-nuclear rally with California rock formations. ...
Watch NowThe sailing of the boat Everyman into the Pacific nuclear testing area as protest. John Adams and guitar. ...
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Shown in our early Canyon Cinema showings, never printed. Example of "The News," an inexpensive local means of combining film seeing and filmmaking. ...
Watch NowThis very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology's voicemail system over the years. From the historically important to the utterly (and sublimely) absurd, they feature a cast of char ...
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From Ross Lipman's "personal ethnographies" series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in Washington State. ...
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Finnish filmmaker Sami van Ingen, a great-grandson of Robert Flaherty, made an expedition to the residence of Bruce Baillie not long after the turn of the century and documented the results of his visit. Study Reel is, as Baillie described it in a letter t ...
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Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...
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During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made with Dan Ochiva, who acted as cameraman on about half of the footage. I shot the rest, and then edited the fi ...
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