Bruce B. Williams
Filmography
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Update: 2025
Partial List of Productions
by Bruce Williams
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Independent productions
MICA productions
Ile Ife Film productions
Commercial and Industrial productions
Artist in residence productions
Student Films
Works in progress
Most Recent Productions
Independent Productions
Push Pins on Parade
(Digital video, 2013, 28:55 minutes)
Land Visions
(Digital Video, 2021, 14:03 minutes)
With Montfaucon Research Center
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
BWms, 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
Excerpt: Parque Purace
For the Maine Arts Commission
King Kong in a Blanket
1978, 16mm, 8:39 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
Snake Dance Teacher Dance
(16mm, 17:30, 1977)
Snake Dance was shown in United States Embassies in Africa in the late 1970s and early
1980s to show the American culture was not all Jim Crow and race riots. Arthur Hall came
to Maine as a movement specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, accompanied by
Norman Mills, in May 1977. The Maine Arts Commission called in filmmakers Abbott Meader,
Huey, and Bruce Williams to document the residency. We looked in on a Wednesday and filmed
all day the next Friday, using all the film we had - color and both negative and reversal
black and white. Arthur Hall returned to Maine in August 1977 to film the Snake Dance
in the woods.
For Ile Ife Films
Two angles on a moment in time
Arthur Hall photo of Bruce Williams
Note Elbow on Knee Monopod
Arthur Hall takes the picture reproduced above
a frame from ORISUN OMI (The Well)
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
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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 with Abbott and Huey, 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
(16mm, 1979, 26:08 minutes)
I recorded the sound for this film and
helped Abbott with the editing
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
So Happy
(1974)
Bruno, Bruce, and Joelle on the streets of New York
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
14 Up Detroit
1993, SVHS, 13 min
Norton Garber Video (camera, music)
Bruce Williams editor
Done & Undone
1993, VHS, 30 min
Norton Garber Video
Bruce Williams,
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
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
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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
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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
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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 (1969, 16mm, 3 min)
Created from the editing room garbage bin
Selected for the 2011 Maine International Film Festival
Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, Maine
Rancid Acid Redux (2021, 3:55)
Reworking of Rancid Acid (1969) with the digital master captured directly from the
original 1969 spliced 16mm "A" roll and a reimagined soundtrack.
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
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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
(Didn't happen)
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