“…With this fleeting shot, Conner instantly invokes the genocidal the American avant-garde. 32 In Valentin de las Sierras (1967), Baillie utilizes intimate close-ups (including shots of lotería cards), ambient field recordings, and mobile, unsteady cinematography-key techniques of experimental ethnography-to construct a fragmentary, lyrical portrait of peasant life in Jalisco, Mexico. The rapid, fragmentary montage style and layered superimpositions featured in LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS also invite comparisons to Baillie's collage masterpiece Quixote (1964)(1965), which is similarly structured around a cross-country road trip, includes portraits of Indigenous people, and pursues a reflexive critique of US settler colonialism-as Baillie wrote in the description accompanying Quixote in Canyon Cinema Co-operative's 1972 catalog, "America, el conquistador."…”