Bruce Baillie Movies

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

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

"Cycle scrambles poem. Bass solo by Pat Smith, LA". - BB...

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

An early work by Bruce Baillie, originally a Canyon Cinemanews.

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...

By the "Canyon Cinema Documentary Film Unit" - (Paul Tulley, Bruce Baillie, etc). Made in Spring, '66 for a small community of Indian people near...

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

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

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

“For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving.” These words are typed across the screen at the outset...

A film by Bruce Baillie

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

Magic hour in Chapala, Jalisco. A previously unseen, edited section of film gleaned from Baillie's sprawling scrolls spanning several decades that...

Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a...

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

Kodachrome film diary.

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.

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...