Bill Brand

Known for DirectingBorn 1949-03-27 (age 77)Rochester, New York, USA

Bill Brand is a multi-disciplinary artist whose films, public artwork, installations, paintings and works-on-paper have exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries microcinemas and on television. His 1980 Masstransiscope, an animated mural installed in the New York City subway, is in the MTA Arts and Design permanent collection. Bill Brand’s artwork has been featured at Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Anthology Film Archive and Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. He is represented by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris and Court Tree Gallery, Brooklyn. His films have been presented at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, New Directors/ New Films Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival. His films are discussed in histories of cinema including the books Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine (2015) by Kathryn Ramey; Results You Can’t Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, (2006) edited by Andrew Lampert, Documentary, A History of the Non-Fiction Film, (1992) by Erik Barnouw; and Allegories of Cinema, (1990) by David James. Brand’s work has also been written about in news and journal articles by Janet Maslin, Jonas Mekas, J. Hoberman, B. Ruby Rich, Ian Christie, Noel Carroll and Randy Kennedy among others. Bill Brand is Professor Emeritus at Hampshire College and teaches Film Preservation at New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program. He is co-owner of BB Optics, Inc., a company that specializes in archival film preservation and post-production services. Bill Brand founded the showcase and workshop Chicago Filmmakers in 1973, and served on the Board of Directors of the Collective for Living Cinema until 1991 in New York City. He co-founded Parabola Arts in 1981 and is currently an artistic director. He served on the board of trustees for The Flaherty (2008-15) and is an advisor to the Orphan Film Symposium and Mono No Aware. Bill Brand lives in New York City with his wife, the artist Katy Martin.Read more

Movies & web series

August Garden

Susie's Ghost

Swan’s Island

Skinside Out

Coalfields

Masstransiscope

Split Decision

Cartoons: New York State Primaries

Cartoons: Still at Work

Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Cartoons: The Central Finger

Cartoons: It Dawn Down

Cartoons: An Angry Dog

Cartoons: Before the Fact

Circles of Confusion

Angular Momentum

Rate of Change

Home Less Home

Huevos a la mexicana

Sound Strip/Film Strip

Ornithology 6

Orchard-Market

Ornithology 4

Sicómoro

Rampla Juniors

Down the Alley

Suite: Interior Outpost

I'm a Pilot Like You

Suite: Moxibustion

Suite: My Father's Leg

Suite: Double Nephrectomy

Suite: Gazelle

Home Movies 1971-81

Tracy's Family Folk Festival

Chuck's Will's Widow

Works in the Field

The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt

Demolition of a Wall

Touch Tone Phone Film

Moment

Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

Always Open/Never Closed

Tree

Organic Afghan