In four parts, one reel.
“More relevant than ever, Bruce Baillie’s ‘American Symphony’ … released in 1990 via an S-VHS master.” – Frankfurter Zettung
“American as conquistador ….” – P. Adams Sitney
“- quixotic filmmaker becomes the hero of his own film.” – S. Frey
One-year journey through the land of incessant progress, researching those sources which have given rise twenty years later to the essential question of survival. —Canyon Cinema, http://www.canyoncinema.com/B/Baillie.html
Bruce Baillie (born in 1931, Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American experimental filmmaker and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. His film Castro Street (1966) was selected in 1992 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. —Wikipedia
This year the Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary, both by taking stock of its distinguished history and looking ahead.
To name Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Shirley Clarke, Bruce Conner, Oskar Fischinger, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ernie Gehr, Ken Jacobs and Lewis