FILM
Bruce Baillie |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 04 March, 19:00Centre Pompidou, 75004 [map]
Since the beginning of the 50s Bruce Baillie has defended experimental cinema from North California. He founded the Canyon Cinema in 1961, then the Canyon Cinema Coop the following year. At the crossroads of documentary and fiction, his films oscillate between description of the real and formal research. After the haikus of his early work, longer forms succeeded, where the aesthetic influence of Stan Brakhage combined with his political position as a pacifist opposing the Vietnam war and consumerist ideas.
Castro Street (1966) is a visual nonstory documentary film which uses the sounds and sights of a city street - in this case, Castro Street near the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California - to convey the street's own mood and feel. There is no dialogue in this non-narrative experimental film. Castro Street, depicts an industrialized area and is extraordinary for its combination of diverse photographic representations.
In Quixote wild horses and a basketball game are part of a cross-country trip that ends with an antiwar demonstration in Manhattan. Bruce Baillie's rarely screened Quixote (1965) stands alongside other synoptic 60s masterpieces such as Stan Brakhage's The Art of Vision which uses dense collages of diverse images in an attempt to make sense of a troubling world.
| What: | Bruce Baillie |
| When: | Wednesday 04 March, 19:00 |
| Where: | Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou 75004 [map] |
| Transport: | Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet-Les Halles |
| Cost: | 4-6EUR |
| Phone: | 01 44 78 12 33 |
| Web: | www.centrepompidou.fr |
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