Bill Brand Movies
- 2005
Swan’s Island
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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...
- 1975
Cartoons: Still at Work
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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...
- 1999
I'm a Pilot Like You
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I'M A PILOT LIKE YOU was shot July, 1999 inside and outside 20 North Moore Street where John and Carolyn Kennedy lived. Ruth Hardinger, a sculptor,...
- 1969
Organic Afghan
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A claymation and abstract object animation consisting of organic shapes and crocheted afghan squares synchronized to an original guitar duet by...
- 1970
Tree
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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...
- 1976
The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt
The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt01976HD
This film chronicles an artistic and personal quest through an assortment of in-camera and optical printing experiments. Shutter effects and swarming...
- 1991
Home Less Home
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People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices. Told as a personal journey,...
- 1974
Cartoons: It Dawn Down
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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 Central Finger
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The Central Finger (16mm, silent, 5 1/2 minutes, 1974).
- 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.
- 1972
Rate of Change
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This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are...
- 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,...
- 1973
Touch Tone Phone Film
Touch Tone Phone Film01973HD
TOUCH TONE PHONE FILM scrambles the system by which film represents time and motion. In the film, a phone rings and a woman gets up to answer it....
- 1978
Works in the Field
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Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer...