Bill Brand Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
    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
  • 1972
    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    01972HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 1975
    Cartoons: New York State Primaries

    Cartoons: New York State Primaries

    Cartoons: New York State Primaries

    101975HD

    New York State Primaries shows stenciled lettering that dissolve between the words, “red,” “blue,” and “green”...

    Cartoons: New York State Primaries
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2003
    Interior Outpost

    Interior Outpost

    Interior Outpost

    02003HD

    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...

    Interior Outpost