Castro Street

Castro Street (1966) is a visual nonstory documentary film which uses the sounds and sights of a city street -- in this case, Castro Street near the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California -- to convey the street's own mood and feel. There is no dialogue in this non-narrative experimental film. It was directed by Bruce Baillie. In 1992, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Cong... More

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Bruce Baillie

Bruce Baillie (born in 1931, Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American experimental filmmaker and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. in 1961, Baillie, along with Chick Strand and others, founded San Francisco Cinematheque. His film Castro Street (1966) was selected in 1992 for...

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