Introduction
Bruce Baillie (September 24, 1931 – April 10, 2020) was an American experimental filmmaker. He was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1931 and died on April 10, 2020 in Camano Island, Washington.
Work
Baillie founded Canyon Cinema in San Francisco in 1961.
Also, in 1961, Baillie, along with friend and fellow cinematic artist Chick Strand, founded San Francisco Cinematheque.
His body of cinematic work includes Quick Billy, To Parsifal, Mass for the Dakota Sioux, Castro Street, Valentin de las Sierras, Roslyn Romance, and Tung.
Legacy
In 1991, he was the recipient of AFI's Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
His motion picture film Castro Street (1966) was selected in 1992 for the United States National Film Registry.
In 2012, Stanford University acquired Baillie's archives and the archives of Canyon Cinema. The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Bruce Baillie's films, including Castro Street, Still Life, Cherry Yogurt, Little Girl, Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?), and Quick Billy Rolls.