Bruce Baillie Movies
- 2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages02022HD
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...
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- 1971

Quick Billy
Quick Billy7.11971HD
A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story.
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- 1961

Mr. Hayashi
Mr. Hayashi5.31961HD
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...
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- 1966

Still Life
Still Life01966HD
"One continuous, intimate shot from within the commune…Being is seen as transitory; everything is in the infinite process of becoming." ...
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- 2000

This Kind of Thing - He and Us (Bruce Baillie)
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Filmed portrait of Bruce Baillie, a mythical figure from the northern Californian experimental film scene. Produced without a script or shooting...
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- 1969

For Bruce
For Bruce01969HD
Impressions during a visit to Bruce Baillie’s farm in Fort Bragg.
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- 2013

Little Girl
Little Girl6.32013HD
A short film by Bruce Baillie, made in 1966, but never released. It was restored by Academy Film Archives, Los Angeles.
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- 2013

Dr. Bish Remedies
Dr. Bish Remedies02013HD
From Ross Lipman's "personal ethnographies" series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in...
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- 1976

Roslyn Romance
Roslyn Romance6.31976HD
A personal and experimental film by San Francisco Bay area avant-garde filmmaker, Bruce Baillie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
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- 1966

Tung
Tung7.21966HD
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...
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- 1961

On Sundays
On Sundays6.51961HD
"First film, 1961, dedicated to Jean Wong. Featuring Ms Wong, Mamma Dog, Petey, (son of Mamma Dog), and San Francisco." -BB
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- 1997

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
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- 1966

Show Leader
Show Leader01966HD
It is a picture of me in a stream saluting the audience on the soundtrack.
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- 1965

Yellow Horse
Yellow Horse01965HD
"Cycle scrambles poem. Bass solo by Pat Smith, LA". - BB...
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- 1961

The Gymnasts
The Gymnasts61961HD
An early work by Bruce Baillie, originally a Canyon Cinemanews.
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- 1962

Everyman
Everyman01962HD
The sailing of the boat Everyman into the Pacific nuclear testing area as protest. John Adams and guitar.
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- 1966

All My Life
All My Life5.11966HD
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...
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- 1963

To Parsifal
To Parsifal6.91963HD
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...
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- 1968

Valentin de las Sierras
Valentin de las Sierras4.81968HD
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.
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- 2005

Will Hindle
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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...
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