Bill Brand

Bill Brand

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.

  • Title: Bill Brand
  • Popularity: 0.153
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1949-03-27
  • Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
  • Homepage: https://www.billbrand.net/
  • Also Known As: BB
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Bill Brand Movies

  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 1979
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    Split Decision

    Split Decision

    10 1979 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Masstransiscope

    Masstransiscope

    10 1980 HD

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  • 1979
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    Split Decision

    Split Decision

    10 1979 HD

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  • 2011
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    Susie's Ghost

    Susie's Ghost

    10 2011 HD

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  • 1974
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    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    10 1974 HD

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  • 2002
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    Skinside Out

    Skinside Out

    10 2002 HD

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  • 1974
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    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    10 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    10 1974 HD

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  • 2005
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    Swan’s Island

    Swan’s Island

    10 2005 HD

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  • 1974
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    Cartoons: An Angry Dog

    Cartoons: An Angry Dog

    10 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    Rate of Change

    Rate of Change

    8.8 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Rate of Change

    Rate of Change

    8.8 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Moment

    Moment

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Moment

    Moment

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1973
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    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    10 1974 HD

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  • 2018
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    Huevos a la mexicana

    Huevos a la mexicana

    7.5 2018 HD

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  • 1973
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    Angular Momentum

    Angular Momentum

    10 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Circles of Confusion

    Circles of Confusion

    10 1974 HD

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  • 2019
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    August Garden

    August Garden

    10 2019 HD

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  • 2003
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    Interior Outpost

    Interior Outpost

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1991
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    Home Less Home

    Home Less Home

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1972
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    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1971
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    Always Open Never Closed

    Always Open Never Closed

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1982
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    Chuck's Will's Widow

    Chuck's Will's Widow

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1975
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    Cartoons: New York State Primaries

    Cartoons: New York State Primaries

    10 1975 HD

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  • 1984
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    Coalfields

    Coalfields

    10 1984 HD

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  • 1975
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    Cartoons: Still at Work

    Cartoons: Still at Work

    10 1975 HD

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  • 1972
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    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    1 1972 HD

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