Renowned filmmaker from Camano celebrated at Vienna film festival

Published 1:30 am Sunday, January 22, 2017

Continuing this month are the special retrospective screenings of work by the internationally known experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie, who, at age 85, now lives on Camano Island.

This time, his films will be shown Jan. 30 through Feb. 3 at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Earlier programs in New York City, London and the San Francisco Bay area also celebrated Baillie.

Most of his work, much of it documentary in nature, was executed in the 1960s.

He was a founder of the San Francisco Cinematheque. His 1966 film “Castro Street” was selected in 1992 for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. The Academy Film Archive also has preserved several of his films.

In 2012, Stanford University acquired Baillie’s archives and the archives of Canyon Cinema, with which he also was affiliated.