Bruce Baillie Movies

  • 1966
    Show Leader

    Show Leader

    Show Leader

    101966HD

    It is a picture of me in a stream saluting the audience on the soundtrack.

    Show Leader
  • 1973
    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    01973HD

    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...

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1961
    The Gymnasts

    The Gymnasts

    The Gymnasts

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

    The Gymnasts
  • 1966
    Still Life

    Still Life

    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." ...

    Still Life
  • 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
  • 1976
    Roslyn Romance

    Roslyn Romance

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1961
    On Sundays

    On Sundays

    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
  • 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
  • 1965
    Yellow Horse

    Yellow Horse

    Yellow Horse

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

    Yellow Horse
  • 1998
    Pieta

    Pieta

    Pieta

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    An avant-garde film commissioned for the trailer for the 1998 Viennale: three scenes showing children playing, birds flying and a mother feeding her...

    Pieta