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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.
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23 December 1976
A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle.
09 March 1968
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.
01 January 1998
This video work often used by the filmmaker to introduce, in his absence, film programs scheduled in distant venues.
28 January 1971
A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story.
01 January 1962
The sailing of the boat Everyman into the Pacific nuclear testing area as protest. John Adams and guitar.
09 August 1999
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.
07 November 1962
A sensitive, low-key portrait of the East Bay Activity Center, a school in Oakland, California, started in the 1950s to help emotionally disturbed children.
01 January 1966
"One continuous, intimate shot from within the commune…Being is seen as transitory; everything is in the infinite process of becoming.
01 January 1990
“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 regrets.
26 September 1976
A personal and experimental film by San Francisco Bay area avant-garde filmmaker, Bruce Baillie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
03 November 2013
A short film by Bruce Baillie, made in 1966, but never released. It was restored by Academy Film Archives, Los Angeles.
01 January 2013
From Ross Lipman's "personal ethnographies" series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in Washington State.
01 January 1986
Not long after settling on Camano Island, Bruce Baillie began creating works on video. Many of these shorts and fragments were little-seen since Canyon Cinema, the distribution organization he co-founded in 1961, limited its efforts to film and declined to distribute Baillie's video pieces.
01 January 1966
It is a picture of me in a stream saluting the audience on the soundtrack.
10 October 1998
Magic 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.
17 April 1964
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.
01 January 1995
The film proper begins as Baillie takes the passenger seat of an older Honda and films an hour-long drive in the rain.
01 January 1961
Shown in our early Canyon Cinema showings, never printed. Example of "The News," an inexpensive local means of combining film seeing and filmmaking.
01 January 1978
Kodachrome film diary.
01 January 1966
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.
26 May 1963
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.
01 January 1966
Kind of a "News," for the people of the 24-hour a day vigil around the US Marine Ammunition Depot at Port Chicago, California.
06 March 1966
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.
01 January 2005
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).
01 January 1962
One of the artist's “newsreels” from the early 1960s, The Peace Rally intercuts footage from an anti-nuclear rally with California rock formations.
01 January 1965
"Cycle scrambles poem. Bass solo by Pat Smith, LA". - BB...
26 May 1963
Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katange by UN soldiers.
04 January 1961
"First film, 1961, dedicated to Jean Wong. Featuring Ms Wong, Mamma Dog, Petey, (son of Mamma Dog), and San Francisco.
26 November 2016
Original video in progress, in three Parts: !. "Salute" (Including Entr' Acte). !!. "Night" (in-progress, not yet incl.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
26 May 1963
Bruce Baillie's Mr. Hayashi might be thought of as a putative East Coast story transformed by a West Coast sensibility.
10 December 1965
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 storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers.
13 February 2012
Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival.
21 September 2022
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.
19 May 2011
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.
01 February 2000
Filmed portrait of Bruce Baillie, a mythical figure from the northern Californian experimental film scene.
01 January 1966
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.
01 January 1961
An early work by Bruce Baillie, originally a Canyon Cinemanews.
10 August 1966
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.
01 January 1963
Set to the music of Hindemith, filmed entirely in a Gothic cathedral and edited to precision counter-point.
26 March 1973
During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.
01 January 1969
Impressions during a visit to Bruce Baillie’s farm in Fort Bragg.
01 January 1964
Made for the Oakland Public Schools on an experimental series of classes in the arts.
01 March 2002
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.
16 May 2000
Video recording made by Bruce Baillie to accompany public presentations and classroom screenings of his work.
25 September 2016
(The Laundry Lesson) For Jefferson Sunflower
02 December 1963
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 the reappearance of land.
01 May 2015
A short adaptation of a poem that was co-written by Bruce Baillie.
01 January 1968
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.
