Partial List of Productions
by Bruce Williams

MICA productions

Ile Ife Film productions

Commercial and Industrial productions

Artist in residence productions

Student Films

Works in progress

Independent Productions

Le Petit Touriste (The Little Tourist)
1975, 16mm, 28 min
A Hamlet-like character travels the alte plano of Peru, dodging a Black Angel.
Montfaucon Research Center, Michel Bonnemaison, director
Ann Arbor Film Festival prizewinner
co-camera, editor

Tableaux des Indes Galantes (Portrait of the Gallant Americas)
1975, 16mm 45 min
Galant Colombian landscapes and not so galant cityscapes
to the music of Rameau's opera of the same name.
Montfaucon Research Center, Michel Bonnemaison, director
co-camera, editor

King Kong in a Blanket
1978, 16mm, 9 min
Dance therapy at Spindleworks, a sheltered workshop for mentally retarded adults
Bayne Wms Film Co MICA
Rudy Burkhart liked this movie and used it for his class in the graduate school of art at Penn.
filmmaker

Silent Focus
1980, 16mm, 20 min
Clown Garbo at the Governor Baxter State School for the Deaf
Bayne Wms Film Co MICA for Maine Arts Commission
filmmaker

14 Up Detroit
1993, SVHS, 13 min
Norton Garber Video
editor

Done & Undone
1993, VHS, 30 min
Norton Garber Video
editor

Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat
1995, SVHS video, 1 hr
Bayne Wms Film for the Grammar School of Putney, Vermont
producer, co-camera, editor

Seasons of a Craftsman
1974, 16mm, 28 min
A portrait of woodcarver David Holmes
Bayne Wms Film Co
filmmaker

So Happy
1973, 16mm, 11 min
Joelle de la Casiniere promotes her strange book Absolument Necessaire
in the Bowery and by the old Yankee Stadium, stopping traffic.
Bayne Wms Film Co. for Montfaucon Research Center
co-producer, co-camera, editor

Orisun Omi (The Well)
1978-1982, 16mm, 30 min, color, B&W
Bayne Wms Film MICA for Ile Ife Films
filmmaker

Arthur Hall's Obatala
1st edition 1993
2nd edition 1994
3rd edition 1996
4th edition 1997
16mm & SVHS video, 16 min
Ile Ife Film by Bayne Wms Film MICA
producer, co-camera, editor

Water Spirit Festival
1989 SVHS video, 28 min
350 children K-3 present an Urhobo Festival under the direction of Arthur Hall
and Perkins Foss, who originally recorded the festival in Nigeria
Ile Ife Film by Bayne Wms Film MICA
producer, co-camera, editor

In Memoriam Adam Smith
1995, 16mm & SVHS video, 1 hr 50 min
Ile Ife Film for family and friends
filmmaker

Nana at the Railroad Square Cinema
1995, 16mm & SVHS video,10 min
Ile Ife Film, Arthur Hall Choreography
producer, co-camera, editor

Diverse custom pieces, reels, "vanity tapes"
1995 - 1996, 16mm & SVHS videos, approx 6 hrs
Ile Ife Film, Arthur Hall, choreography drawn from The Arthur Hall Collection, Odunde, The Ile Ife Philadelphia Maine Concerts and The Rhythm of Life Concert.
producer, co-camera, editor

Sample Reel for Ile Ife Phila Pa
1994, SVHS, 10 min
Ile Ife Film
filmmaker

Company Tapes
1992, SVHS, 20 min
NewVerMaine Dance Company in performance, Arthur Hall, artistic director
Bayne Wms Film MICA for Ile Ife Films
producer, co-camera, editor

Snake Dance Teacher Dance
1977, 16mm, 20 min
Dance master Arthur Hall in residence in a mill town of Maine.
Bayne Wms Film MICA
producer, co-camera, editor

Exeunt
1977, 16mm, 28 min
The performing arts in Maine, including John Fields as Falstaff at the Theater at Monmouth, Tony Montenaro's Celebration Mime, and children's hand puppets.
MICA, NEA Bicentennial State Film Grant
project director, sound, co-editor

American Odyssey
1979, 16mm, 28 min
Music education in schools across the country
MICA for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association
sound, co-editor

Deep Trout
1982, 16mm, 45 min
for Abbott Meader and Walter Easton
additional sound, assistant editor

Stretching Out
1982, 16mm, 15 min
A Very Special Arts Festival with poetry from Feather Collection
MICA
sound, co-editor

Anthology by Maine Filmmakers
1975, 16mm, 45 min
Collection of shorts by the founders of the Maine Film Alliance
Maine Commission on the Arts and Humanities
anthology editor

Taste Sheraton (promotional)
1979, multimedia
Media Shop in Boston, New York, Washington
photographer

I Love New York (commercial)
1979, 16mm, 3 min
for Media Shop
editor

Comcast Cable (industrial)
1980, 16mm, 30 min
The Media Shop, Philadelphia
sound

Where Rehabilitation Is Reality
1994, SVHS, 15 min
On juvenile delinquency
Bayne Wms Film MICA for Friends of the Maine Youth Center
producer, camera, editor

Sample Reel for Arthur Hall International Dance Company
1996, 16mm & SVHS video, 5 min
Ile Ife Film
producer, co-camera, editor

LSS Burn Test (industrial)
1990, SVHS, 9 min
co-camera, editor

A Commitment to Our Future (Capital campaign video)
1990, SVHS, 15 min
Bayne Wms Film MICA for the Kirkland Foundation and Mental Health Services of Southeastern Vermont
producer, camera, sound, editor

On the Convertibility of the Ruble
1989, SVHS, 25 min
Streamway Foundation film for Geonomics, Middlebury, Vermont
camera, sound, editor

Special Needs Children in the Classroom
1989, SVHS, 1 hr 30 min in 6 parts
Streamway Foundation film for Mental Health Services of Southeastern Vermont
camera, sound, editor

Children of Alcoholic Families
1986, audio, 30 min
Bayne Wms Film MICA for United Counseling Services, Bennington VT
producer, sound, editor

Gubernatorial Campaign Spots
1978, 16mm, 5 at 30 sec
Bayne Wms Film MICA for Governor Joseph Brennan's campaign
camera, editor

19th Annual Maine Student Film and Video Festival
Awards Screening Videotape
1996, SVHS video master from diverse media, 1 hr 27 min
judge, editor per Huey's direction

A Monhegan Christmas
1981 audio for SALT, Kennebunkport
broadcast on NPR, "All Things Considered," Christmas Eve, 1982

Call Me Pearl (1979, 8mm) and
Charlie Wakefield (1978, 8mm)
with students Way Down East

Pigs & Ponies (1970, 16mm, 25 min)
Senior thesis film, an ode to Frank Zappa

Electric Potatoes (1969, multimedia, 30 min)
In the UCLA studios

Rancid Acid (1968, 16mm, 3 min)
Created from the editing room garbage bin, forecasting the Manson murders

Thunder Barmoard Adrift in Armonk (1968, 16mm, 5 min)
On the road to New York City, inspired by Jonas Mekas

Marvel (1968, 16mm, 30 min)
Quintessential self potrait of students in cultural upheaval

EBOG (1967, 16mm, 10 min)
First film with a big bug inspired by Kafka's Metamorphosis

Works in progress for Ile Ife Films

And the Children Danced
Thirty years of the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble
Ile Ife Film with the support to date of the Maine Arts Commission,
CoreStates Bank of Philadelphia and private patrons
feature film scheduled for release in 1998 or 1999

Tche Tche Kule
Arthur Hall's exercises for kids
1990-1996, SVHS video, 30 minutes
in editing, scheduled for release December 1996
1991, SVHS video, 1 hr rough cut
Ile Ife Film by Bayne Wms Film MICA
producer, co-camera, editor

Arthur Hall's Obatala
5th and definitive edition, 16mm & SVHS video, 21 min
incorporating footage from 1978 to 1995
Ile Ife Film by Bayne Wms Film MICA
producer, co-camera, editor

Requiem
Arthur Hall's lamentation, including Iya Ni Hura, Nin Nin Wo, and Requiem for Adam
1995, 16mm & SVHS video, 16 min
Ile Ife Film, Arthur Hall, choreography
producer, co-camera, editor

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