Bruce Baillie

Bruce Baillie (September 24, 1931 – April 10, 2020) was an American experimental filmmaker. He was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1931 and died on April 10, 2020, in Camano Island, Washington.[1]

Baillie in 2016

Work

Baillie founded Canyon Cinema in San Francisco in 1961.

Also, in 1961, Baillie, along with friend and fellow cinematic artist Chick Strand, founded San Francisco Cinematheque.[2]

His body of cinematic work includes Quick Billy, To Parsifal, Mass for the Dakota Sioux, Castro Street, All My Life, Valentin de las Sierras, and Tung.

Legacy

In 1991, he was the recipient of AFI's Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.[3][4]

His 1966 short film Castro Street was selected in 1992 for the United States National Film Registry.

In 2012, Stanford University acquired Baillie's archives and the archives of Canyon Cinema.[2] The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Bruce Baillie's films, including Castro Street, Still Life, Cherry Yogurt, Little Girl, Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?), and Quick Billy Rolls.[5]

Filmography
  • On Sundays (1960–1961)
  • David Lynn's Sculpture (1961, unfinished)
  • 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 Street (1966) filmed on Castro Street in Richmond, California
  • All My Life (1966)
  • Still Life (1966)
  • Termination (1966)
  • Port Chicago Vigil (1966)
  • Show Leader (1966)
  • Valentin de las Sierras (1971)
  • Quick Billy (1971)
  • Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?): Intro. 1 & II (1978)
  • Roy Eldridge (1987)
  • The P-38 Pilot (1990)
  • The Holy Scrolls (completed 1998)
  • Pietà (1998)
  • Salute (1999)
  • Robert Fulton (2011)
  • Don Larson (2014)
  • Les Memoires d'un Ange (Remembering Life) (2014) Video work unfinished.
  • "Dr Bish's Birthday", by Yeh Tung (2015)
  • Little Girl (Released in 2014, made in 1966)
  • I Wish I Knew (Released in 2015, original VHS from 1989)
  • Commute (2015) with Lorie Baillie.
  • To the Women Soldiers of Kobani & Damascus (2015) Video by Bill McLane, poem by Bruce Baillie & Eliza McLane.

References
  1. Hoberman, J. (April 10, 2020). "Bruce Baillie, 'Essential' Avant-Garde Filmmaker, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  2. Ray, Elaine: STANFORD UNIVERSITY NEWS, "Archives of experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie now in Stanford University Libraries", September 12, 2012, Accessed online, May 27, 2015
  3. "Bruce Baillie receives 1991 AFI award". Archived from the original on 2014-03-20.
  4. "Bruce Baillie receives Maya Deren Award". 15 February 1991.
  5. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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