Bill Brand Filmes

  • 1982
    Chuck's Will's Widow

    Chuck's Will's Widow

    Chuck's Will's Widow

    01982HD

    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. Visualized...

    Chuck's Will's Widow
  • 2019
    August Garden

    August Garden

    August Garden

    102019HD

    Scattered in seemingly random order, on the screen, we see the light that traverses the kinetic fields of Bill Brand’s latest film August...

    August Garden
  • 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
  • 2018
    Huevos a la mexicana

    Huevos a la mexicana

    Huevos a la mexicana

    7.52018HD

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

    Huevos a la mexicana
  • 1973
    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    01973HD

    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 a...

    Demolition of a Wall
  • 1974
    Cartoons: An Angry Dog

    Cartoons: An Angry Dog

    Cartoons: An Angry Dog

    101974HD

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

    Cartoons: An Angry Dog
  • 2011
    Susie's Ghost

    Susie's Ghost

    Susie's Ghost

    102011HD

    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"...

    Susie's Ghost
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    101974HD

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

    Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • 1974
    Circles of Confusion

    Circles of Confusion

    Circles of Confusion

    101974HD

    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...

    Circles of Confusion
  • 1975
    Cartoons: Still at Work

    Cartoons: Still at Work

    Cartoons: Still at Work

    101975HD

    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...

    Cartoons: Still at Work
  • 1972
    Moment

    Moment

    Moment

    01972HD

    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...

    Moment
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    101974HD

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

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down
  • 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
  • 1974
    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    101974HD

    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...

    Cartoons: Before the Fact
  • 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
  • 1972
    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    01972HD

    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,...

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune