Movies: Bruce Baillie

  • 1966
    All My Life

    All My Life (1966)

    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 Life" plays on the soundtrack. At the end of the 3 minute film, the camera tilts up to the blue sky ju...

    All My Life
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1966
    Castro Street

    Castro Street (1966)

    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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 2000....

    Castro Street
  • 1968
    Valentin de las Sierras

    Valentin de las Sierras (1968)

    Valentin de las Sierras

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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....

    Valentin de las Sierras
  • 1971
    Quick Billy

    Quick Billy (1971)

    Quick Billy

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

    Quick Billy
  • 1965
    Quixote

    Quixote (1965)

    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 singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragm...

    Quixote
  • 1966
    Termination

    Termination (1966)

    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 Laytonville, California....

    Termination
  • 1963
    To Parsifal

    To Parsifal (1963)

    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 in a boat, then gulls flying around the boat while fish are cleaned, and finally the journey back and ...

    To Parsifal
  • 1966
    Tung

    Tung (1966)

    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 early-morning light....

    Tung
  • 1962
    Everyman

    Everyman (1962)

    Everyman

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

    Everyman
  • 1964
    Mass for the Dakota Sioux

    Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964)

    Mass for the Dakota Sioux

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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....

    Mass for the Dakota Sioux
  • 2013
    Little Girl

    Little Girl (2013)

    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
  • 1961
    Mr. Hayashi

    Mr. Hayashi (1961)

    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 is, mounts a social critique of sorts, involving the difficulty the title character, a Japanese garden...

    Mr. Hayashi
  • 1961
    On Sundays

    On Sundays (1961)

    On Sundays

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    "First film, 1961, dedicated to Jean Wong. Featuring Ms Wong, Mamma Dog, Petey, (son of Mamma Dog), and San Francisco." -BB...

    On Sundays
  • 1995
    Commute

    Commute (1995)

    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 passing images on the roadside to other vehicles to the raindrops that squirm across the windshield....

    Commute
  • 2013
    Dr. Bish Remedies

    Dr. Bish Remedies (2013)

    Dr. Bish Remedies

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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....

    Dr. Bish Remedies
  • 1961
    The Gymnasts

    The Gymnasts (1961)

    The Gymnasts

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

    The Gymnasts
  • 1966
    Still Life

    Still Life (1966)

    Still Life

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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....

    Still Life
  • 1976
    Roslyn Romance

    Roslyn Romance (1976)

    Roslyn Romance

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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....

    Roslyn Romance
  • 2022
    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022)

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

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    This 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 o...

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages