Bruce Baillie (nacido en 1931, Aberdeen, Dakota del Sur, EEUU) es un cineasta experimental estadounidense y miembro fundador de Canyon Cinema en San Francisco. Su film Castro Street (1966) fue seleccionado en 1992 para su preservación por el National Film Registry
In 2025, Refle-x-périmental continues to pay tribute to the work of experimental film cooperatives that emerged from the 1960s onwards, embracing independence, rebellion, and the (re)invention of both avant-garde cinema and thought. After celebrating the co-ops founded in New York, Hamburg, and Amsterdam, as well as the 50th anniversary of the Paris Films Coop, the winter season will open with a focus on the West Coast of the United States.
This autumn, Eye Filmmuseum spotlights American avant-garde cinema of the 1960s. The exhibition and extensive accompanying programme feature screenings of both iconic and lesser-known films, highlighting the explosion of formal experimentation in artistic filmmaking of the period.
Fechas:
De Domingo, Octubre 13, 2024 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Enero 5, 2025 (Todo el día)
The second program of Refle-x-périmental is dedicated to cine-portraits. It proposes an exploration of gestures of cinematographic (self)representation based on multiple intersections of the gaze.
From self-portraits (Snow, Unglee) to family (Schefer, Satake), familiar (Mekas, Baillie), or even domestic (Rey) portraits, along with political portraits (Glowczewska, Schefer), these films question the relationship between the filmmakers and their subjects.
Partiendo de la exposición Somewhere from Here to Heaven, producida por Azkuna Zentroa y comisariada por Garbiñe Ortega, este libro catálogo nace como un espacio de admiración y reconocimiento a Bruce Baillie, cineasta “esencial” de los años 60 y gran promotor del cine experimental. Textos inéditos en algunos casos, históricos en otros, establecen un diálogo en torno a la figura de uno de los creadores más influyentes de la vanguardia cinematográfica norteamericana.
Bruce Baillie, who died on April 10th of this year, was the pioneer of the "Western American Experimental Film" and the key figure in the pioneering avant-garde awakening in the San Francisco Bay Area in the sixties.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Julio 17, 2020 - 20:00 hasta Sábado, Julio 18, 2020 - 19:55
On April 10th, we received the devastating news of the passing of Bruce Baillie. Baillie was the founder of Canyon Cinema, and co-founder of the San Francisco Cinematheque, alongside Chick Strand, whose film work was highly influential on his own.
Fechas:
De Jueves, Abril 30, 2020 (Todo el día) hasta Miércoles, Mayo 6, 2020 (Todo el día)
Como extensión de su exposición en Nave 0 de Matadero, Cineteca acoge AR, FOGO, TERRA, ÁGUA, una carta blanca en la que la artista brasileña Ana Vaz (Brasilia, 1986) pone en diálogo su propio trabajo con una personal historia del cine en la que reivindica una poética-física de la impureza. De Bruce Baillie a Toshio Matsumoto, pasando por los nuevos cines latinoamericanos y la vanguardia norteamericana, Vaz nos invita a un viaje elemental -aire, fuego, tierra, agua- por un cine personal y político, artístico y etnográfico.
In 1967, Larry Gottheim started the Cinema Department at Binghamton University which was the first regular undergraduate program that dealt with cinema as a personal art. Considering the theme of nature in art and functions of racial, cultural and personal identity, Gottheim’s practice explores the ways in which time, movement, and becoming are bound up in a complex relation between formal cinematic patterns and pro-filmic subjects.
Fechas:
De Jueves, Marzo 14, 2019 (Todo el día) hasta Sábado, Marzo 16, 2019 (Todo el día)
Bay Area-based non-profit film and media arts organization Canyon Cinema has, for 50 years, served as a bastion of “artist-made moving image work” not just as an archive, but as a distributor and champion of experimental, avant-garde, alternative and otherwise underserviced filmmaking voices.
