Introduction to the Holy Scrolls (1998)

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• 1998
• Bruce Baillie

THE HOLY SCROLLS was an eleven hour assemblage of Bruce Baillie's extraordinary later work, including the complete ROSLYN ROMANCE along with DAY ASHORE, THE CARDINAL'S VISIT and an assortment of other pieces (finished and unfinished) or, as Baillie himself described it, "hitherto unseen films" made since QUICK BILLY nearly two decades earlier: "semi-edited, silent, spliced, prepared for a few special showings." THE HOLY SCROLLS, then, was more of an event than a film. Ideally, the individual shorts will surface independently at some point. Meanwhile, we have the INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLY SCROLLS, completed in February 1998, an "introductory video with author commenting on films, video inserts from more recent life, family, etc.