ALL MY LIFE

Bruce Baillie

Bruce Baillie (Aberdeen, SD, USA, 1931) studied filmmaking at the London School of Film Technique. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s, becoming soon a point of reference for the New American Cinema. He founded Canyon Cinema in 1961, bringing to light underground authors of the time, and transforming it into a distribution company in 1967. Meanwhile, he also directed his first films, like On Sundays (1961) and The Gymnasts (1962), with distinctive documentary features that disappeared in his later works. They were followed by movies with a more synthetic and experimental visual style (not unlike Stan Brakhage’s), such as Castro Street (1966), which was included in the National Film Registry of Congress. Baillie continued making movies during the 1970s and 1980s, and eventually switched from film (a fundamental element on a technical and poetic level) to video, as he did in The P-38 Pilot (1990).

FILMOGRAFIA

On Sundays (1961), The Gymnasts (1961), Mr Hayashi (1963), To Parsifal (1963), Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964), All My Life (1966), Quixote (1965), Castro Street (1966), Valentin de las Sierras (1968), Quick Billy (1970), The P-38 Pilot (1990), Pieta (1998).