Bill Brand Filmes

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1970
    Tree

    Tree

    Tree

    01970HD

    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...

    Tree
  • 2016
    Orchard-Market

    Orchard-Market

    Orchard-Market

    02016HD

    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...

    Orchard-Market
  • 1969
    Organic Afghan

    Organic Afghan

    Organic Afghan

    01969HD

    A claymation and abstract object animation consisting of organic shapes and crocheted afghan squares synchronized to an original guitar duet by...

    Organic Afghan
  • 2011
    Rampla Juniors

    Rampla Juniors

    Rampla Juniors

    02011HD

    Rampla Juniors Fútbol Club is a local team from el Cerro, Montevideo that has served as the heart of this Uruguayan working class neighborhood...

    Rampla Juniors
  • 2021
    Ornithology 6

    Ornithology 6

    Ornithology 6

    02021HD

    4K video, silent, 8 1/2 minutes. (continuous loop)

    Ornithology 6
  • 2002
    Skinside Out

    Skinside Out

    Skinside Out

    102002HD

    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...

    Skinside Out
  • 1979
    Split Decision

    Split Decision

    Split Decision

    101979HD

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

    Split Decision
  • 1973
    Angular Momentum

    Angular Momentum

    Angular Momentum

    101973HD

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

    Angular Momentum
  • 1974
    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    101974HD

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

    Cartoons: The Central Finger
  • 1971
    Always Open/Never Closed

    Always Open/Never Closed

    Always Open/Never Closed

    01971HD

    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...

    Always Open/Never Closed
  • 2011
    Sicómoro

    Sicómoro

    Sicómoro

    02011HD

    SICÓMORO is a meditation on travel and home revealed through ornate doors and architectural details in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay. The...

    Sicómoro
  • 2005
    Swan’s Island

    Swan’s Island

    Swan’s Island

    102005HD

    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...

    Swan’s Island
  • 1972
    Rate of Change

    Rate of Change

    Rate of Change

    8.81972HD

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

    Rate of Change
  • 1980
    Masstransiscope

    Masstransiscope

    Masstransiscope

    101980HD

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

    Masstransiscope
  • 1984
    Coalfields

    Coalfields

    Coalfields

    101984HD

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

    Coalfields
  • 2015
    Ornithology 4

    Ornithology 4

    Ornithology 4

    02015HD

    ORNITHOLOGY 4 was displayed in 2016 in "Peephole Cinema - Kintoscopic Records," a showcase of contemporary media artists evoking the proto- and early...

    Ornithology 4
  • 2011
    Down the Alley

    Down the Alley

    Down the Alley

    02011HD

    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...

    Down the Alley
  • 1972
    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    31972HD

    Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

    Sound Strip/Film Strip
  • 1998
    Suite: Double Nephrectomy

    Suite: Double Nephrectomy

    Suite: Double Nephrectomy

    01998HD

    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...

    Suite: Double Nephrectomy