Bruce Baillie Salute, Memoirs of an Angel I (1999)

year: 1999 25 minutes SALUTE, the first installment of Bruce Baillie s proposed threepart final film, MEMOIRS OF AN ANGEL, chronicles (in collage form) the legendary filmmaker s time in the Navy and beyond. The subsequent installments, NIGHT and LIGHT, are still worksinprogress. A few of the thematic Introduction of the element of illusion (MY LAST MASQUERADE). Imagery of war in the form of documentary footage, film and the author recording himself, selfconsciously, in uniform One canno