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Bill Brand is a multi-disciplinary artist whose films, public artwork, installations, paintings and works-on-paper have exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries microcinemas and on television. His 1980 Masstransiscope, an animated mural installed in the New York City subway, is in the MTA Arts and Design permanent collection. Bill Brand’s artwork has been featured at Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Anthology Film Archive and Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. He is represented by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris and Court Tree Gallery, Brooklyn.
His films have been presented at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, New Directors/ New Films Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival. His films are discussed in histories of cinema including the books Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine (2015) by Kathryn Ramey; Results You Can’t Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, (2006) edited by Andrew Lampert, Documentary, A History of the Non-Fiction Film, (1992) by Erik Barnouw; and Allegories of Cinema, (1990) by David James. Brand’s work has also been written about in news and journal articles by Janet Maslin, Jonas Mekas, J. Hoberman, B. Ruby Rich, Ian Christie, Noel Carroll and Randy Kennedy among others.
Bill Brand is Professor Emeritus at Hampshire College and teaches Film Preservation at New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program. He is co-owner of BB Optics, Inc., a company that specializes in archival film preservation and post-production services. Bill Brand founded the showcase and workshop Chicago Filmmakers in 1973, and served on the Board of Directors of the Collective for Living Cinema until 1991 in New York City. He co-founded Parabola Arts in 1981 and is currently an artistic director. He served on the board of trustees for The Flaherty (2008-15) and is an advisor to the Orphan Film Symposium and Mono No Aware.
Bill Brand lives in New York City with his wife, the artist Katy Martin.
Most Popular Bill Brand Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
01 January 1974
Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.
09 September 2018
This is my digital/analog contribution to “Xochimilco Treasure Hunting” in Mexico City on the final day of "HAZLO TU MISMO," Do-it-Yourself Independent Analog Film Laboratory Encounter, Sept.
01 January 1974
The Central Finger (16mm, silent, 5 1/2 minutes, 1974).
01 January 2011
Susie's Ghost is about the mystery of the marks we make and leave behind. The “Susie” in the title refers to a sibling but the "ghost" refers more generally to lingering feelings of loss.
01 January 1975
New York State Primaries shows stenciled lettering that dissolve between the words, “red,” “blue,” and “green” but don’t create secondary colors.
09 November 1972
In a 2.5 minute sequence, a simple series of ordinary gas station events is seen intermittently through the opening display.
01 January 1974
Made at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton as a class exercise, filmmaker Saul Levine performs with students who each try to mimic his previously recorded phrase and then try to imitate each other imitating the recording.
01 January 1980
Consisting of a 300-foot-long painting made on reflective material, Masstransiscope is a public artwork visible from the subway tunnels of the Manhattan-bound B and Q lines.
01 January 1974
An Angry Dog is a hand-held animation made from a Cracker Jack toy.
01 January 2005
Katy Martin paints directly on her skin, and uses her whole body to make marks with the paint. Bill Brand frames the action and its trace, in the process, linking painting and cinema.
01 March 1972
Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand.
01 January 1975
Still at Work, a self-portrait of the artist in his places of work: the studio in Lower Manhattan and Sarah Lawrence College, the school where he taught.
01 January 1973
Nearly continuous colour changes rotating around a spectrum, occurring at varying speeds of rotation and in varying values of light.
01 January 1974
In It Dawn Down an ordinary take-up reel spins to make colorful and delicate patterns even though the film is black and white.
11 June 1973
DEMOLITION OF A WALL takes six frames of the falling wall from the 1896 Lumiere film and reorders these six frames in all their permutations.
01 January 2002
Skinside Out features paint on skin, carried out in an expressionist mode on both of the filmmakers' bodies.
01 January 1979
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation.
01 January 1984
West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes into a semi-abstract kinetic field.
13 August 2019
Scattered in seemingly random order, on the screen, we see the light that traverses the kinetic fields of Bill Brand’s latest film August Garden.
01 January 1982
Chuck's Will's Widow is a eulogy for my father and mother whose ashes are spread in the Adirondack mountain woods where the film is shot.
01 January 1971
A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure of continuous lap dissolves and continuous spectral color shifts.
02 January 1978
Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer generated mattes.
01 January 1972
A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers.
02 January 1983
This is an impressionistic portrayal of the 1982 folk festival at Tracy and Eloise Schwarz’s farm in Central Pennsylvania.
01 January 2011
SICÓMORO is a meditation on travel and home revealed through ornate doors and architectural details in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay.
02 January 1970
An old tree sits on a mound in an Ohio farm field. The filming of the tree and the metrical editing of the film is organized around the tree's natural elements: water, earth, root ends, roots, trunk, limbs, branches, leaves and sun.
08 December 1999
I'M A PILOT LIKE YOU was shot July, 1999 inside and outside 20 North Moore Street where John and Carolyn Kennedy lived.
01 January 1974
In this film, circles of colored light (red, green, blue) pulsate and flicker as they move around the frame.
01 January 1998
This double portrait cinematically projects my sister's wound onto my own body and psyche. Shortly after she received a living donor kidney from a friend, I filmed the scar that resulted from removing both her damaged organs.
01 January 2003
Part of the SUITE series. Here, my body is explicitly a screen on which I project my father’s photographs of the family to articulate my position of difference within the family experience of illness and death.
01 January 1998
My Father's Leg is a self-portrait where I imagine the disease and pain that caused my father's death twenty-five years earlier.
01 January 1998
This is a portrait of my wife, the artist Katy Martin in her studio painting directly on her own body while imagining a wild animal.
01 January 1999
Also a double portrait, this video is an inside-out variation on DOUBLE NEPHRECTOMY. Here, the video uses projected light to penetrate my own body picturing my sister in her trade as an acupuncturist.
01 January 2011
Three friends on a Montevideo Art Deco apartment roof, one in a rabbit mask, climb up a tower and fall through the looking glass into a 1950’s themed bowling arcade.
02 January 1976
This film chronicles an artistic and personal quest through an assortment of in-camera and optical printing experiments.
02 January 1973
TOUCH TONE PHONE FILM scrambles the system by which film represents time and motion. In the film, a phone rings and a woman gets up to answer it.
01 January 1972
This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum.
22 March 1991
People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices.
01 January 2016
I filmed two Shanghai artists, Zhuang Yin and Zhao Bo, who took me to their favorite places. Yin chose a small grove of trees – an urban oasis surrounded by building construction.
01 January 2015
ORNITHOLOGY 4 was displayed in 2016 in "Peephole Cinema - Kintoscopic Records," a showcase of contemporary media artists evoking the proto- and early cinema experiences of the peep show.
01 January 2021
4K video, silent, 8 1/2 minutes. (continuous loop)
01 January 2011
Rampla Juniors Fútbol Club is a local team from el Cerro, Montevideo that has served as the heart of this Uruguayan working class neighborhood since 1914! Neither about the game nor the team, the film instead is a poetic evocation of the ritualized pleasure and dedication of the fans and the spectacular landscape of their time worn stadium.
02 January 1969
A claymation and abstract object animation consisting of organic shapes and crocheted afghan squares synchronized to an original guitar duet by classmates Ray Goldstein and Nick Katzman.
