Bruce Baillie
Overview
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experimental film
Experimental film
Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...
maker and founding member of Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema is a San Francisco based filmmakers' cooperative specializing in the distribution of avant-garde and experimental film. The organization was instigated in about 1960 by Bruce Baillie as an exhibition outlet for independent film, and was formally established as a non-profit...
in San Francisco. in 1961, Baillie, along with Chick Strand
Chick Strand
Chick Strand was an experimental filmmaker, "a pioneer in blending avant-garde techniques with documentary".-Life:...
and others, founded San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque is a film society founded in 1961 by a group of filmmakers, including Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. Working with other groups like Canyon Cinema, the SF Cinematheque has shown experimental film and video in cooperation with venues such as San Francisco Art Institute,...
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His film Castro Street
Castro Street (film)
Castro Street is a visual nonstory documentary film which uses the sounds and sights of a city street -- in this case, Castro Street near the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California -- to convey the street's own mood and feel. There is no dialogue in this non-narrative experimental film...
(1966) was selected in 1992 for preservation in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
National Film Registry
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...
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- On Sundays (1960-1961)
- David Lynn's Sculpture (1961, unfinishedUnfinished workAn unfinished work is creative work that has not been finished. Its creator may have chosen never to finish it or may have been prevented from doing so by circumstances outside of their control such as death. Such pieces are often the subject of speculation as to what the finished piece would have...
) - Mr. Hayashi (1961)
- The Gymnasts (1961)
- Friend Fleeing (1962)
- Everyman (1962)
- News #3 (1962)
- Have You Thought of Talking to the Director? (1962)
- Here I Am (1962)
- A Hurrah for Soldiers (1962-1963)
- To Parsifal (1963)
- Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964)
- The Brookfield Recreation Center (1964)
- Quixote (1964-1965, revised 1967)
- Yellow Horse (1965)
- Tung (1966)
- Castro StreetCastro Street (film)Castro Street is a visual nonstory documentary film which uses the sounds and sights of a city street -- in this case, Castro Street near the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California -- to convey the street's own mood and feel. There is no dialogue in this non-narrative experimental film...
(1966) filmed on Castro Street in Richmond, CaliforniaRichmond, CaliforniaRichmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been... - All My Life (1966)
- Still Life (1966)
- Termination (1966)
- Port Chicago Vigil (1966)
- Show Leader (1966)
- Valentin De Las Sierras (1967)
- Quick Billy (1970)
- Roslyn Romance (is It Really True?): Intro.
Quotations
I want everybody really lost, and I want us all to be at home there.
