Bruce Baillie Filmes

  • 1971
    Quick Billy

    Quick Billy

    Quick Billy

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    A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story.

    Quick Billy
  • 2011
    Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton

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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...

    Robert Fulton
  • 1966
    Tung

    Tung

    Tung

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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...

    Tung
  • 1999
    Salute

    Salute

    Salute

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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...

    Salute
  • 1965
    Quixote

    Quixote

    Quixote

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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...

    Quixote
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1995
    Commute

    Commute

    Commute

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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...

    Commute
  • 1969
    For Bruce

    For Bruce

    For Bruce

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    Impressions during a visit to Bruce Baillie’s farm in Fort Bragg.

    For Bruce
  • 1963
    Non Catholicam

    Non Catholicam

    Non Catholicam

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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...

    Non Catholicam
  • 1961
    The Gymnasts

    The Gymnasts

    The Gymnasts

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    An early work by Bruce Baillie, originally a Canyon Cinemanews.

    The Gymnasts
  • 1962
    Everyman

    Everyman

    Everyman

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    The sailing of the boat Everyman into the Pacific nuclear testing area as protest. John Adams and guitar.

    Everyman
  • 2013
    Little Girl

    Little Girl

    Little Girl

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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.

    Little Girl
  • 1966
    Termination

    Termination

    Termination

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    By the "Canyon Cinema Documentary Film Unit" - (Paul Tulley, Bruce Baillie, etc). Made in Spring, '66 for a small community of Indian people near...

    Termination
  • 1963
    To Parsifal

    To Parsifal

    To Parsifal

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    The 16-minute film falls neatly into two nearly equal parts, separated by fades to and from black. Part one depicts a sunrise, a journey out to sea...

    To Parsifal
  • 1986
    Roy Eldridge

    Roy Eldridge

    Roy Eldridge

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    Not long after settling on Camano Island, Bruce Baillie began creating works on video. Many of these shorts and fragments were little-seen since...

    Roy Eldridge
  • 2005
    Will Hindle

    Will Hindle

    Will Hindle

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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...

    Will Hindle
  • 1966
    Castro Street

    Castro Street

    Castro Street

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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.

    Castro Street
  • 1965
    Yellow Horse

    Yellow Horse

    Yellow Horse

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    "Cycle scrambles poem. Bass solo by Pat Smith, LA". - BB...

    Yellow Horse
  • 1963
    Mr. Hayashi

    Mr. Hayashi

    Mr. Hayashi

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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...

    Mr. Hayashi
  • 1966
    All My Life

    All My Life

    All My Life

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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...

    All My Life