Bill Basquin

Movies

From Inside of Here
Writer
From Inside of Here is a feature-length non-fiction film based in research in the Mexican Wolf Recovery Area in western New Mexico. The audience is invited to understand the filmmaker as a subject co-produced by their location, as well as consider the ways the land is co-produced by those on it. The place itself is a character in the film, as are the filmmaker's methods. The film is composed of multiple media: 16mm film, HD video, infrared stills, inter-titles, and sound recordings. The result is a feminist ethnographic landscape film that communicates both the majesty of 1800s landscape photography and the violence of a settler colonial gaze that is its context.
From Inside of Here
Director
From Inside of Here is a feature-length non-fiction film based in research in the Mexican Wolf Recovery Area in western New Mexico. The audience is invited to understand the filmmaker as a subject co-produced by their location, as well as consider the ways the land is co-produced by those on it. The place itself is a character in the film, as are the filmmaker's methods. The film is composed of multiple media: 16mm film, HD video, infrared stills, inter-titles, and sound recordings. The result is a feminist ethnographic landscape film that communicates both the majesty of 1800s landscape photography and the violence of a settler colonial gaze that is its context.
Death Valley Love Letter
Director
Comprised of a series of single-shot 16mm scenes. Photographed while part of a group led by artists Anya Gallaccio and Kelly Eginton.
Deer Census
Director
Deer Census is composed entirely of digital still images. The images were recorded and given to me by Nathan Bridgeman, whose is the voice you hear speaking about tax code in Texas as it relates to deer hunting and deer leases.
14th and Valencia
Director
14th and Valencia is a portrait, in October, of an intersection near where I live. - Bill Basquin
Martin
Director
Martin is a portrait of sheep shearer and farmer Martin Denton.
The Last Day of November
Director
On a cold day in November, a family of deer hunters returns from the field to the barn.