Bruce Baillie Movies

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...

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...

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.

"One continuous, intimate shot from within the commune…Being is seen as transitory; everything is in the infinite process of becoming." ...

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

Original video in progress, in three Parts: !. "Salute" (Including Entr' Acte). !!. "Night" (in-progress, not yet incl. here). III "Light"...

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

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

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

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

Kodachrome film diary.

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...

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

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

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

A film by Bruce Baillie

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...

Not long after settling on Camano Island, Bruce Baillie began creating works on video. Many of these shorts and fragments were little-seen since...

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