Bill Brand Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1972
    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    01972HD

    A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers. In combination with freeze frames,...

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
  • 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
  • 1978
    Works in the Field

    Works in the Field

    Works in the Field

    01978HD

    Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer...

    Works in the Field
  • 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
  • 1972
    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    01972HD

    Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

    Sound Strip/Film Strip
  • 1991
    Home Less Home

    Home Less Home

    Home Less Home

    01991HD

    People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices. Told as a personal journey,...

    Home Less Home
  • 1984
    Coalfields

    Coalfields

    Coalfields

    101984HD

    West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes into...

    Coalfields
  • 1999
    I'm a Pilot Like You

    I'm a Pilot Like You

    I'm a Pilot Like You

    01999HD

    I'M A PILOT LIKE YOU was shot July, 1999 inside and outside 20 North Moore Street where John and Carolyn Kennedy lived. Ruth Hardinger, a sculptor,...

    I'm a Pilot Like You
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1983
    Tracy's Family Folk Festival

    Tracy's Family Folk Festival

    Tracy's Family Folk Festival

    01983HD

    This is an impressionistic portrayal of the 1982 folk festival at Tracy and Eloise Schwarz’s farm in Central Pennsylvania. The festival,...

    Tracy's Family Folk Festival
  • 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
  • 1973
    Touch Tone Phone Film

    Touch Tone Phone Film

    Touch Tone Phone Film

    01973HD

    TOUCH TONE PHONE FILM scrambles the system by which film represents time and motion. In the film, a phone rings and a woman gets up to answer it....

    Touch Tone Phone Film
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Tree

    Tree

    Tree

    01970HD

    An old tree sits on a mound in an Ohio farm field. The filming of the tree and the metrical editing of the film is organized around the tree's...

    Tree
  • 1973
    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    01973HD

    DEMOLITION OF A WALL takes six frames of the falling wall from the 1896 Lumiere film and reorders these six frames in all their permutations. With a...

    Demolition of a Wall
  • 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