Bruce Baillie is an American cinematic artist and founder of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco in 1961.
Also, 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 masterpieces 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 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. Wikipedia
As cited in: P. Adams Sitney Professor of Visual Arts Princeton University (2002) Visionary Film : The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000,
Cited In Private Correspondence To Bruce Baillie's student, the abstract 16mm motion-picture maker, Douglas Graves("Palms")
“The Angel was in the earth, and she led me to fix my eyes in Heaven.”
And the remnants of the world were renewed by children and it was called Paradise.
