Bill Brand
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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.
Behind the Camera
Split Decision
Director
Swan’s Island
Director
Skinside Out
Director
Organic Afghan
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Sound Strip/Film Strip
Director
Ornithology 4
Director
Chuck's Will's Widow
Director
Rampla Juniors
Director
August Garden
Director
Home Less Home
Director, Escritor
Cartoons: Before the Fact
Director
Angular Momentum
Director
Demolition of a Wall
Director, Editor
Suite: Moxibustion
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Masstransiscope
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Cartoons: It Dawn Down
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Cartoons: An Angry Dog
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Rate of Change
Director, Editor
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
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Touch Tone Phone Film
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Suite: My Father's Leg
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Suite: Double Nephrectomy
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Sicómoro
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Orchard-Market
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Moment
Director, Editor
Circles of Confusion
Director
Cartoons: Still at Work
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The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt
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Tree
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Tracy's Family Folk Festival
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