potato skin

observation hive

dearborn and bird

coast starlight

Synopsis

The Last Day of November is the first film in a series of three that "gently inquires into work, mortality, identity, and the flesh." This film follows a family of deer hunters as they return from the field to the barn.

The Last Day of November

The Last Day of November, a short 16mm film by Bill Basquin, will be presented at the Santa Cruz Film Festival:
2:45pm, April 26, 2007, at the Riverfront Twin.

http://www.BillBasquin.com/catalog.0.html.0.html

Here is what some of the critics are saying about Basquin’s work:

“Beautifully photographed.”
–Jonathan Marlowe, Green Cine Daily

“Graceful, intense and moving.”
--Joanna Priestley, Filmmaker

“This delicate triptych gently inquires into work, mortality, identity and the flesh.”
–Konrad Steiner, Independent Filmmaker and Curator

“[Basquin’s work is] fresh and substantial.”
–Greta Snider, Professor of Film, San Francisco State
University

"Refreshingly spare"
--Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

“Beautiful and exciting.”
--Cissie Peltz, Peltz Gallery; Milwaukee, WI

“Subtle and rich with subtext.”
–Shawna Swartz, www.afterellen.com

“Scrape away the Hollywood gloss or indie veneer from movies such as Brokeback Mountain and Boys Don't Cry and you'll get closer to the quieter truths in Bill Basquin's movies. A gifted cinematographer …Basquin has crafted a triptych of short films about family, farming, and hunting that subtly reveal unspoken aspects of masculinity — his 2004 film Martin got sheep-ish before Ang Lee did in Brokeback.”
--Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Out of the Bay Area came riding Bill Basquin's Range, a lyrical depiction of the workaday life of a working rancher.”
--B. Ruby Rich, San Francisco Bay Guardian