Dedicated to his own father, Quixote reflects many of Baillie’s themes from earlier work, including reflections on the hero, anti-war and anti-fascist actions, the histories of social struggles, and the beauty of American landscapes. In Bruce Baillie’s words: “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."
Bruce Baillie
Bruce Baillie (Aberdeen, SD, USA, 1931) served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and studied filmmaking at the London School of Film Technique. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s, becoming soon a guiding light of the New American Cinema. He founded Canyon Cinema in 1961, bringing to light underground authors of the time, and transforming it into a distribution company in 1967. He also founded, along with fellow filmmaker Chick Strand, The San Francisco Cinematheque. His film Castro Street (1966) was selected in 1992 for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry.
