Bill Brand

This is my digital/analog contribution to “Xochimilco Treasure Hunting” in Mexico City on the final day of "HAZLO TU MISMO," Do-it-Yourself Indepen...

09 de set. de 2018

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes ques...

01 de jan. de 1979

This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are...

01 de jan. de 1972

New York State Primaries shows stenciled lettering that dissolve between the words, “red,” “blue,” and “green” but don’t create secondary colors. T...

01 de jan. de 1975

An Angry Dog is a hand-held animation made from a Cracker Jack toy.

01 de jan. de 1974

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. Visualiz...

01 de jan. de 1982

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. M...

13 de ago. de 2019

West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes int...

01 de jan. de 1984

In this film, circles of colored light (red, green, blue) pulsate and flicker as they move around the frame. Where they intersect, they display a v...

01 de jan. de 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 phra...

01 de jan. de 1974

Nearly continuous colour changes rotating around a spectrum, occurring at varying speeds of rotation and in varying values of light. Colours are se...

01 de jan. de 1973

Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.

01 de jan. de 1974

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 ...

01 de jan. de 2011

Skinside Out features paint on skin, carried out in an expressionist mode on both of the filmmakers' bodies. The emphasis is on the pleasure of loo...

01 de jan. de 2002

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 p...

01 de jan. de 2005

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 t...

01 de jan. de 1975

In It Dawn Down an ordinary take-up reel spins to make colorful and delicate patterns even though the film is black and white.

01 de jan. de 1974

Consisting of a 300-foot-long painting made on reflective material, Masstransiscope is a public artwork visible from the subway tunnels of the Manh...

01 de jan. de 1980

The Central Finger (16mm, silent, 5 1/2 minutes, 1974).

01 de jan. de 1974

In a 2.5 minute sequence, a simple series of ordinary gas station events is seen intermittently through the opening display. This sequence is then ...

09 de nov. de 1972

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 fa...

01 de jan. de 2003

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. With ...

11 de jun. de 1973

A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure ...

01 de jan. de 1971

A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers. In combination with freeze frames, posit...

01 de jan. de 1972

People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices. Told as a personal journey,...

02 de nov. de 1991