Bruce Baillie Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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.

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

A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of...

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The film proper begins as Baillie takes the passenger seat of an older Honda and films an hour-long drive in the rain. Baillie's attention moves from...

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

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

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

A film by Bruce Baillie

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

A video by Bruce Baillie