Bruce Baillie Castro Street (1966)

I was so struck by the beauty of Baillie s Castro Street (1966) the first time that I saw it, that I immediately wanted to see it again. The contrasting images (steel, flowers) and sounds, (metal grinding, piano tinkling) are stunning. Shot at the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California the film is full of textured images of trains, metal and machinery. Mixed in are shots of sky and vibrant flowers. One particular scene focuses on the trains which are now moving at a faster pace and opens to a field of stunningly beautiful purple violets set in a field into which another train enters the frame from the Donna Albano, 2001