Bruce Baillie Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1964
    Mass for the Dakota Sioux

    Mass for the Dakota Sioux

    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...

    Mass for the Dakota Sioux
  • 1961
    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
  • 1968
    Valentin de las Sierras

    Valentin de las Sierras

    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
  • 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
  • 1998
    Pietà

    Pietà

    Pietà

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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...

    Pietà
  • 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
  • 1989
    I Wish I Knew

    I Wish I Knew

    I Wish I Knew

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    With Lorie, Wind and BB.

    I Wish I Knew
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1966
    Port Chicago Vigil

    Port Chicago Vigil

    Port Chicago Vigil

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    Kind of a "News," for the people of the 24-hour a day vigil around the US Marine Ammunition Depot at Port Chicago, California.

    Port Chicago Vigil
  • 2013
    Dr. Bish Remedies

    Dr. Bish Remedies

    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...

    Dr. Bish Remedies
  • 2022
    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

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

    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...

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
  • 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
  • 1970
    Memoirs of an angel

    Memoirs of an angel

    Memoirs of an angel

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    A film by Bruce Baillie

    Memoirs of an angel