Bruce Baillie Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Shown in our early Canyon Cinema showings, never printed. Example of "The News," an inexpensive local means of combining film seeing and filmmaking.

"First film, 1961, dedicated to Jean Wong. Featuring Ms Wong, Mamma Dog, Petey, (son of Mamma Dog), and San Francisco." -BB

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

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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

Introduction of the element of illusion (masquerade). Imagery of war – documentary, the movies, and the author recording himself,...

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

Kodachrome film diary.

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...

A sensitive, low-key portrait of the East Bay Activity Center, a school in Oakland, California, started in the 1950s to help emotionally disturbed...

(The Laundry Lesson) For Jefferson Sunflower