All My Life

All My Life (1966)

The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My Life" plays on the soundtrack. At the end of the 3 minute film, the camera tilts up to the blue sky just as the song ends.

Date of release
1966-01-01
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (47)
Runtime
3m
Genres
Music
Director
Bruce Baillie

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

All My Life is a 1966 American experimental short film directed by Bruce Baillie. It shows a continuous shot of a fence, soundtracked by Ella Fitzgerald's 1936 debut single "All My Life". Film critic P. Adams Sitney identified it as an early example of what he termed structural film.

Production

All My Life was shot during a summer trip Baillie took to Caspar, California. Baillie had been admiring the quality of the sunlight, and while driving back down to San Francisco on the second day, he insisted on stopping so he could film. He used a camera with a telephoto lens, set up on a tripod so he could pan and adjust focus at the same time.

Baillie had "All My Life" in mind for the soundtrack because it had been playing at Paul Tulley's cabin where they had been staying. The record player there had a potato sack over its speaker, giving it a scratchy sound that Baillie wanted to use. He completed the film at the Morningstar Commune in Sebastopol, California.

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