Bruce Baillie Movies

Kodachrome film diary.

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

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

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

A film by Bruce Baillie

An experimental film dedicated to the Dakota Sioux, which follows the form of the Christian Mass. A series of images of contemporary America...

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

This video work often used by the filmmaker to introduce, in his absence, film programs scheduled in distant venues. Created also as formal...

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...

Filmed portrait of Bruce Baillie, a mythical figure from the northern Californian experimental film scene. Produced without a script or shooting...

A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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...

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...

From Ross Lipman's "personal ethnographies" series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in...

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...

A personal and experimental film by San Francisco Bay area avant-garde filmmaker, Bruce Baillie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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...