The assignment the first time, given to me by the conditions of making the film, was not to make a beautiful film, but rather to make a document about this inner passage, a little-described, but very common 鈥 in fact universal 鈥 phase of being human: the evolution of consciousness through which every man and woman eventually must go.
Bruce Baillie on 蚕耻颈肠办听叠颈濒濒测
This programme features three works surveying America鈥檚 (inner) landscape: Quick Billy, Baillie鈥檚 most personal piece; along with Pastorale d鈥橢te by Will Hindle, one of Baillie鈥檚 beloved friends, and the astonishing Starlight by Robert聽Fulton.
Robert Fulton, Starlight, USA 1970, 16mm, colour and black and white, sound, 5聽min
鈥楢 Tibetan Lama. His disciple. The disciple鈥檚 wife, young boy, and terrier. An old tugboat crossing the Mississippi River. A man in his seventh month of solitude, and the hermitage built by his own hands. The man鈥檚 bloodhound; his cat. Clouds crossing the Continental Divide. A mountain stream. A girl. The sun.鈥 鈥揜obert聽Fulton
Will Hindle, Pastorale d鈥橢te, USA 1958, 16mm, colour, sound, 9聽min
Joining the lyrical images of a singular high summer鈥檚 day, Hindle鈥檚 debut film is also one of the nation鈥檚 first works from the 鈥榩ersonal film鈥櫬爉ovement.
Bruce Baillie, Quick Billy, USA 1971, 16mm, colour and black and white, sound, 56聽min
The essential experience of transformation, between Life and Death, death and birth, or rebirth, in four reels. The first three are adapted from The Tibetan Book of the Dead; the fourth reel in the form of a black-and-white one-reeler Western 鈥 The work incorporates a large body of material: dream, the daily recording roll-by-roll of that extraordinary period of the filmmaker鈥檚 life 鈥撀犫渢he moment-by-moment confrontation with Reality鈥 (Carl Jung). Each phase of the work was given its own time to develop, stretching over a period of three-and-a-half years 鈥 聽All of the film was recorded next to the Pacific Ocean in Fort Bragg, California 鈥 聽the Sea is the main force though the聽film.
叠谤耻肠别听叠补颈濒濒颈别
Bruce Baillie Quick Billy Rolls 14, 41, 43, 46 and 52, USA 1968鈥70, 16mm, colour, silent, 18聽min
鈥楢rtifacts from the descending layers of an archaeological dig鈥
叠谤耻肠别听叠补颈濒濒颈别
Introduced by Garbi帽e Ortega, series聽curator
Tate Film is supported by LUMA聽Foundation