Super-8 transferred to digital.

(forthcoming)

Super-8 transferred to digital.

(forthcoming)

2011. Digital video. 6 minutes.

2011. Super-8 transferred to digital. 5 minutes. My last rolls of Kodachrome.

2010. Digital video. 23 minutes. Shot in the Pais Vasco on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees in September 2010.

2009. Digital video. 6.5 minutes.
Shot by Nathan Bridgeman using an infrared digital camera.

2008. 16mm film b/w.
4 minutes. This film was commissioned by Bay Area Now 5 and kino21 for a world premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 16, 2008. The image to the right is a frame grab from a dirty video transfer of a 16mm optical print of the super-8 original.

2007. Super-8/mini-DV b/w. 3 minutes. A meditation on music, mortality and fairy tales.

2006. Super-8/mini-DV b/w
silent experimental. 4 minutes. Odysseus, still disguised by the goddess Athena as a bedraggled drifter, encounters his son in the swineherd's hut after having been gone for twenty years. A commissioned piece that is part of a feature-length film of Homer's epic THE ODYSSEY. Curated by Bernadine Mellis and Andrea Lawlor. redbirdfilms.com/odyssey.html

2005. 16mm b/w experimental documentary. 8 minutes. A portrait of quiet reckoning about family relationships and farming. The final film in the RANGE triptych. This film received a Personal Works Grant in 2004 from the Film Arts Foundation and was presented at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Cast: Peter Basquin, Jessie Basquin, Anne Basquin, Jeanine Basquin, Sam Moore, Angela Moore, Chris Moore Crew: Bill Basquin (direction, camera, and edit), Anne Basquin (camera), Jessie Basquin (camera), Elise Hurwitz (sound design), Bruce Miler (optical printing), Rock Ross (titles), Lewis Motisher (negative cutting)

2004. 16mm b/w experimental documentary. 5 minutes. A New Zealand farmer shears a sheep and gives his thoughts on rural life. The second film in the RANGE triptych. Cast: Martin Denton, sheep Crew: Bill Basquin (direction, camera, and edit), Elise Hurwitz (sound design), Bruce Miller (optical printing), Rock Ross (titles), Lewis Motisher (negative cutting)

2001. 16mm b/w experimental documentary. 4 minutes. On a cold November day, we follow a family of deer hunters from the field back to the barn. The first film in the RANGE triptych. Cast: Frank Murn, Don Murn, Patrick Murn, Chris Johnson Crew: Bill Basquin (direction, camera, edit), Elise Hurwitz (sound mix and design), Bruce Miller (optical printing), Rock Ross (titles), Lewis Motisher (negative cutter)