Direction: Bruce Baillie

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Bruce Baillie. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Quick Billy

1971 · Documentary · 56 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

7.8

52 votes

7.8

52 votes

Quixote

1965 · Documentary · 45 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

7.7

49 votes

7.7

49 votes

Roslyn Romance (S)

1976 · Documentary · 17 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

7.6

47 votes

7.6

47 votes

Mass for the Dakota Sioux (S)

1964 · Documentary · 24 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

7.3

80 votes

7.3

80 votes

Castro Street (S)

1966 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot Inspired by a lesson from Erik Satie; a film in the form of a street - Castro Street running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California ... switch engines...

7.1

166 votes

7.1

166 votes

To Parsifal (S)

1963 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot The very soul of California seems freshly up for grabs in TO PARSIFAL, one of experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie’s early masterpieces. We begin at sea, bobbing under seagulls and sky...

7.0

115 votes

7.0

115 votes

On Sundays (S)

1961 · Documentary · 26 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Cast Miss Jean Wong · Roy Ferguson

Plot Legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie's first film, shot in San Francisco (and utilizing the city as an effective backdrop). A combination of documentary and fantasy starring Baillie's "lovely friend" Miss Wong,...

7.0

35 votes

7.0

35 votes

Here I Am (S)

1962 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot Bruce Baillie’s lyrical portrait of an Oakland school for emotionally disturbed children regards the world of the classroom with open curiosity. His camera thrives on the unpredictable movement of students...

6.9

69 votes

6.9

69 votes

Little Girl (S)

1966 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

6.8

32 votes

6.8

32 votes

Valentin de las Sierras (S)

1971 · Documentary · 10 min. · Mexico

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot 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.

6.6

177 votes

6.6

177 votes

All My Life (S)

1966 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a delapitated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My Life"...

6.3

222 votes

6.3

222 votes

Mr. Hayashi (S)

1961 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

6.2

93 votes

6.2

93 votes

Tung (S)

1966 · Documentary · 5 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot 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 early-morning light.

6.1

75 votes

6.1

75 votes

Pieta (S)

1998 · Movie · 1 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Cast Wind Baillie · Lorie Baillie

Plot Commissioned as the trailer for the 1998 Viennale. "These scenes are a one-minute, condensed version of the conclusion to my last work, MEMOIRS OF AN ANGEL. The scene of children...

5.6

122 votes

5.6

122 votes

The P-38 Pilot (S)

1990 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot “For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving.” These words are typed across the screen at the outset of THE P-38 PILOT, Bruce Baillie’s experimental video...

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Yellow Horse (S)

1965 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot “Cycle scrambles poem. Bass solo by Pat Smith, LA”. (Bruce Baillie)

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Port Chicago Vigil (S)

1966 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

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Commute

1995 · Documentary · 57 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot 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 passing images on the...

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Show Leader (S)

1966 · Documentary · 1 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

Plot It is a picture of me in a stream saluting the audience on the soundtrack.

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Still Life (S)

1966 · Documentary · 2 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Baillie

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