Quixote (1965)

Cofounder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film Bruce Baillie 19312020 has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of likeminded filmmakers Shot on a crosscountry journey during 1964 and 1965 is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road Baillie sets out to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another