Salute (1999)

SALUTE, the first installment of Bruce Baillie's proposed three-part 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 works-in-progress. "A few of the thematic elements... Introduction of the element of illusion (MY LAST MASQUERADE). Imagery of war [in the form of] documentary footage, film and the author recording himself, self-consciously, in uniform! One cannot here avoid an implicit reference to the Bhagavad Gita; the warrior Arjuna and Lord Krishna in Dharma combat on the battlefield as metaphor for the human dilemma in confrontation with the world of time/space, illusion of opposites [and the] attachment to the merely transient." - Marcel Joyeux, L'illumination

Released Aug. 9, 1999 25 min None+

Genres: Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.photograph, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.football, imdb.soldier, imdb.navy + 3 more, imdb.memory, imdb.photo-film, imdb.part-of-trilogy