Bill Brand Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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