Bill Brand Movies
- 1975
Cartoons: New York State Primaries
Cartoons: New York State Primaries101975HD
New York State Primaries shows stenciled lettering that dissolve between the words, “red,” “blue,” and “green”...
- 1971
Always Open Never Closed
Always Open Never Closed01971HD
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...
- 1983
Tracy's Family Folk Festival
Tracy's Family Folk Festival01983HD
This is an impressionistic portrayal of the 1982 folk festival at Tracy and Eloise Schwarz’s farm in Central Pennsylvania. The festival,...
- 1969
Organic Afghan
Organic Afghan01969HD
A claymation and abstract object animation consisting of organic shapes and crocheted afghan squares synchronized to an original guitar duet by...
- 1978
Works in the Field
Works in the Field01978HD
Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer...
- 1991
Home Less Home
Home Less Home01991HD
People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices. Told as a personal journey,...
- 1974
Cartoons: An Angry Dog
Cartoons: An Angry Dog101974HD
An Angry Dog is a hand-held animation made from a Cracker Jack toy.
- 1973
Angular Momentum
Angular Momentum101973HD
Nearly continuous colour changes rotating around a spectrum, occurring at varying speeds of rotation and in varying values of light. Colours are seen...
- 1972
Moment
Moment01972HD
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...
- 1972
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune01972HD
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,...
- 1974
Cartoons: Before the Fact
Cartoons: Before the Fact101974HD
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...
- 1974
Cartoons: It Dawn Down
Cartoons: It Dawn Down101974HD
In It Dawn Down an ordinary take-up reel spins to make colorful and delicate patterns even though the film is black and white.
- 1974
Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin101974HD
Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.
- 2005
Swan’s Island
Swan’s Island102005HD
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...