Bruce Baillie Movies

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...

SALUTE, the first installment of Bruce Baillie's proposed three-part final film, MEMOIRS OF AN ANGEL, chronicles (in collage form) the legendary...

Video recording made by Bruce Baillie to accompany public presentations and classroom screenings of his work.

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

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.

Six uncut camera rolls to be shown with QUICK BILLY. The ‘rolls’ took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and...

“For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving.” These words are typed across the screen at the outset...

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

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...

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...

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

Made for the Oakland Public Schools on an experimental series of classes in the arts.

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...

Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katange by UN soldiers.

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...

One of the artist's “newsreels” from the early 1960s, The Peace Rally intercuts footage from an anti-nuclear rally with California rock...

Made on the north coast of California, in Mendocino, combining spontaneity and preconception in a film that is essentially a short lesson in feature...

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

A short adaptation of a poem that was co-written by Bruce Baillie.

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