Bill Brand

Directing·Mar 27, 1949·Rochester, New York, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Ornithology 62021 · Director	Director
August Garden2019 · Director	Director
Huevos a la mexicana2018 · Director	Director
Orchard-Market2016 · Director	Director
Ornithology 42015 · Director	Director
Susie's Ghost2011 · Director	Director
Sicómoro2011 · Director	Director
Rampla Juniors2011 · Director	Director
Down the Alley2011 · Director	Director
Swan’s Island2005 · Director	Director
Suite: Interior Outpost2003 · Director	Director
Skinside Out2002 · Director	Director
I'm a Pilot Like You1999 · Director	Director
Suite: Moxibustion1999 · Director	Director
Suite: My Father's Leg1998 · Director	Director
Suite: Double Nephrectomy1998 · Director	Director
SSuite: Gazelle1998 · Director	Director
Home Less Home1991 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Home Movies 1971-811985 · Actor	Actor
Coalfields1984 · Director	Director
Tracy's Family Folk Festival1983 · Director	Director
Chuck's Will's Widow1982 · Director	Director
Masstransiscope1980 · Director	Director
Split Decision1979 · Bar Crowd, Director	Bar Crowd, Director
Works in the Field1978 · Director	Director
The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt1976 · Director	Director
Cartoons: New York State Primaries1975 · Director	Director
Cartoons: Still at Work1975 · Director	Director
Cartoons: The Central Finger1974 · Director	Director
Cartoons: An Angry Dog1974 · Director	Director
Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin1974 · Director	Director
Cartoons: It Dawn Down1974 · Director	Director
Cartoons: Before the Fact1974 · Director	Director
Circles of Confusion1974 · Director	Director
Demolition of a Wall1973 · Director	Director
Touch Tone Phone Film1973 · Director	Director
Angular Momentum1973 · Director	Director
Moment1972 · Director	Director
Sound Strip/Film Strip1972 · Director	Director
Rate of Change1972 · Director	Director
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune1972 · Director	Director
Always Open/Never Closed1971 · Director	Director
Tree1970 · Director	Director
Organic Afghan1969 · Director	Director