Collected Data

"Mr. Baillie creates a film that represents less the world as it seems to exist than one that’s been refracted through his being."


Manhole Dargis for the NYT;

In many respects, the image is perfectly ordinary, the kind that you chance on if you’re driving along, say, a California road, as Mr. Baillie was when he popped out of a car, seized by inspiration. Yet, as the camera continues to float left and Fitzgerald begins singing (“All my life/I’ve been waiting for you”), something magical — call it cinema — happens in the middle of the first verse. As the words “My wonderful one/I’ve begun” warm the soundtrack, a splash of red flowers on the fence suddenly appears, as if the film itself were offering you a garland.


Bruce Baillie, a Film-Poet Collapsing Inner and Outer Space