Bill Brand Movies
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 2019
August Garden
August Garden102019HD
Scattered in seemingly random order, on the screen, we see the light that traverses the kinetic fields of Bill Brand’s latest film August...
- 1972
Rate of Change
Rate of Change8.81972HD
This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are...
- 2018
Huevos a la mexicana
Huevos a la mexicana7.52018HD
This is my digital/analog contribution to “Xochimilco Treasure Hunting” in Mexico City on the final day of "HAZLO TU MISMO,"...
- 1980
Masstransiscope
Masstransiscope101980HD
Consisting of a 300-foot-long painting made on reflective material, Masstransiscope is a public artwork visible from the subway tunnels of the...
- 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...
- 1984
Coalfields
Coalfields101984HD
West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes into...
- 1974
Circles of Confusion
Circles of Confusion101974HD
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...
- 2002
Skinside Out
Skinside Out102002HD
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...
- 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...
- 1979
Split Decision
Split Decision101979HD
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes...
- 1974
Cartoons: The Central Finger
Cartoons: The Central Finger101974HD
The Central Finger (16mm, silent, 5 1/2 minutes, 1974).
- 1982
Chuck's Will's Widow
Chuck's Will's Widow01982HD
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...
- 1974
Cartoons: An Angry Dog
Cartoons: An Angry Dog101974HD
An Angry Dog is a hand-held animation made from a Cracker Jack toy.
- 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”...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2011
Susie's Ghost
Susie's Ghost102011HD
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"...
- 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.
- 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.