Bruce Baillie Movies

Kodachrome film diary.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

(The Laundry Lesson) For Jefferson Sunflower

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...

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

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

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...

A video by Bruce Baillie

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

A short film by Bruce Baillie, made in 1966, but never released. It was restored by Academy Film Archives, Los Angeles.