Valentin De Las Sierras (1968) by Bruce Baillie
Sunday, December 4, 1983, 8:00 pm
Films of Bruce Baillie
Bruce Baillie in person
All My Life, 1966, 3 min.; Mass for the Dakota Sioux, 1963-64, 20 min., Valentin De Las Sierras, 1968, 10 min.; Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?), 1974, 17 min.; The Cardinal’s Visit (excerpts), in-progress.
The Cinematheque will conclude the Bay Area celebration of Canyon Cinema (following the Open Screening and pot-luck Canyon reunion at the No Nothing) with the first Bay Area appearance since 1977 of one of Canyon’s founders, Bruce Baillie, in a screening of his films at the S.F. Art Institute. Baillie has earned a permanent place as one of America’s most original personal filmmakers, whose precision and sensitivity to detail is never at the expense of loving warmth and spontaneity to whatever the camera records. This evening’s program offers a cross-section of Baillie’s work, from the pioneering Mass… through his diaristic work in-progress.