Movies

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

An avant-garde film commissioned for the trailer for the 1998 Viennale: three scenes showing children playing, birds flying and a mother feeding her...

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...

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

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...

Finnish filmmaker Sami van Ingen, a great-grandson of Robert Flaherty, made an expedition to the residence of Bruce Baillie not long after the turn...

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

A short adaptation of a poem that was co-written by Bruce Baillie.

Original video in progress, in three Parts: !. "Salute" (Including Entr' Acte). !!. "Night" (in-progress, not yet incl. here). III "Light"...

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

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...

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

Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katange by UN soldiers.

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

(The Laundry Lesson) For Jefferson Sunflower

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

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

Video recording made by Bruce Baillie to accompany public presentations and classroom screenings of his work.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

Made on the north coast of California, in Mendocino, combining spontaneity and preconception in a film that is essentially a short lesson in feature...