QUICK BILLY (THURSDAY 9 PM ONLY)

THURSDAY, MAY 10. 9PM. ONE SHOW ONLY. (1971 Bruce Baillie) Quick Billy is Canyon Cinema founder Bruce Baillie's mediation on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  A “4-reel western,” beginning with hypnotically beautiful shots of natural life seen through a homemade aquarium which moves into an imagistic recall of Baillie's personal past.  The film ends with a western satire, sending up in wild style ideas of the transformation from life to death.  An avant-garde American masterpiece. Restored version. 56 min. 16mm.