Name Bruce Baillie Role Filmmaker | ||
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Education London Film School (1959), University of California, Berkeley (1956–1958) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Movies Castro Street, Quick Billy, All My Life, Valentin de las Sierras, Mass for the Dakota Sioux Similar People Chick Strand, Stan Brakhage, Ella Fitzgerald | ||
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Bruce Baillie (born in 1931, Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American cinematic artist and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.
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In 1961, Baillie, along with friend and fellow cinematic artist Chick Strand, among others, founded San Francisco Cinematheque.
His body of cinematic work includes such as Quick Billy, To Parsifal, Mass for the Dakota Sioux, Castro Street, and the motion pictures Valentin de las Sierras, Roslyn Romance, and Tung, among many others.
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 preservation in 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, and Little Girl.
