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Bruce Baillie

Bruce Baillie (born in 1931, Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American experimental filmmaker and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. His film Castro Street (1966) was selected in 1992 for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry.

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  • Austrian Film Museum: In memoriam Bruce Baillie

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    Bruce Baillie, who died on April 10th of this year, was the pioneer of the "Western American Experimental Film" and the key figure in the pioneering avant-garde awakening in the San Francisco Bay Area in the sixties. In memoriam we show two of the main works by this underground poet: Mass for the Dakota Sioux is a picture-sound poem as a requiem for a native culture destroyed by "civilized" America (as an outsider, Baillie naturally identifies with the Sioux and orchestrates the Gregorian chorales on the soundtrack like an accusation to the world of the white conquerors).

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 17, 2020 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    Austrian Film Museum - Vienna, Austria

  • Fracto presents: Bruce Baillie / Chick Strand Digital Screening

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    Valentin De Las Sierras (Bruce Baillie, 1968)

    Dear Fracto Friends,

    On April 10th, we received the devastating news of the passing of Bruce Baillie. Baillie was the founder of Canyon Cinema, and co-founder of the San Francisco Cinematheque, alongside Chick Strand, whose film work was highly influential on his own.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 30, 2020 (All day) to Wednesday, May 6, 2020 (All day)

  • Depth of FIeld. Ar, Fogo, Terra, Água: Carte Blance to Ana Vaz

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    Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, 1964)

    As an extension of her exhibition at Matadero's Nave 0, Cineteca hosts AR, FOGO, TERRA, ÁGUA, a carte blanche in which the Brazilian artist Ana Vaz (Brasilia, 1986) puts her own work in dialogue with a personal history of cinema in which claims a poetic-physics of impurity. From Bruce Baillie to Toshio Matsumoto, through the new Latin American cinemas and the North American avant-garde, Vaz invites us on an elementary journey - air, fire, earth, water - for a personal and political, artistic and ethnographic cinema.

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 12, 2019 (All day)
    Sunday, July 14, 2019 (All day)
    Wednesday, July 17, 2019 (All day)
    Sunday, July 28, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cineteca Madrid - Madrid, Spain

  • Close-Up: Larry Gottheim and Friends

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    Blues (Larry Gottheim, 1969)

    In 1967, Larry Gottheim started the Cinema Department at Binghamton University which was the first regular undergraduate program that dealt with cinema as a personal art. Considering the theme of nature in art and functions of racial, cultural and personal identity, Gottheim’s practice explores the ways in which time, movement, and becoming are bound up in a complex relation between formal cinematic patterns and pro-filmic subjects.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 14, 2019 (All day) to Saturday, March 16, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom

  • Canyon Cinema at 50

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    Decodings (Michael Wallin, 1988)

    Bay Area-based non-profit film and media arts organization Canyon Cinema has, for 50 years, served as a bastion of “artist-made moving image work” not just as an archive, but as a distributor and champion of experimental, avant-garde, alternative and otherwise underserviced filmmaking voices.

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 13, 2018 - 19:30
    Saturday, July 14, 2018 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Billy Wilder Theater - Los Angeles, United States

  • DIM Cinema: Troublemakers

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    Still from Philippe Garrel, Actua 1, 1968

    Regarded in its time as one of the best documentaries of the New Left, Troublemakers, subtitled “a film about organizing people for change,” follows the frustrated efforts of community activists to put theory into practice in an African-American community in Newark, New Jersey, two years prior to the July 1967 uprising there.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada

  • Elegy to Ecstasy with Edith Kramer

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    Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, 1964)

    Canyon Cinema travels to Berkeley this week for a special screening of pivotal works from its collection. As a part of Canyon Cinema 50, its celebration of half a century in continuous operation, and together with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s ongoing series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and the Counterculture, 1964-1974, the distributor will co-present Elegy To Ecstasy, an evening of films made by some of the most influential figures in the history of avant-garde cinema.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 19:00

    Venue: 

    Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley , United States

  • L'Âge d’Or 2016

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    L'Âge d’Or Festival seeks to reconnect with the spirit of research, audacity and adventure of a mythical manifestation of the Royal Belgian Cinematheque, the EXPRMNTL festival (1949-1975), in which the first three L'Âge d’Or prizes were awarded. Designed by Jacques Ledoux, the festival was created to support the poetic and subversive films which, echoing L'Âge d’Or, Buñuel's 1930 film that broke with both cinematic and societal conformism.

    From 6 to 11 October 2016, the third edition of L'Age d'Or Festival will be held in the CINEMATEK with Joana Hadjithomas, Peter Gidal, Shai Heredia, Mark Toscano and numerous guests. This year's programme includes retrospectives of Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand and other filmmakers from the West Coast, a selecion of Asian experimental cinema and the premiere of Brecht Debackere's documentry film EXPRMNTL.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, October 6, 2016 (All day) to Tuesday, October 11, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cinematek - Brussels, Belgium

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