Bill Brand Movies

Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.

Part of the SUITE series. Here, my body is explicitly a screen on which I project my father’s photographs of the family to articulate my...

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....

This film chronicles an artistic and personal quest through an assortment of in-camera and optical printing experiments. Shutter effects and swarming...

Scattered in seemingly random order, on the screen, we see the light that traverses the kinetic fields of Bill Brand’s latest film August...

4K video, silent, 8 1/2 minutes. (continuous loop)

My Father's Leg is a self-portrait where I imagine the disease and pain that caused my father's death twenty-five years earlier. Having become older...

Rampla Juniors Fútbol Club is a local team from el Cerro, Montevideo that has served as the heart of this Uruguayan working class neighborhood...

I filmed two Shanghai artists, Zhuang Yin and Zhao Bo, who took me to their favorite places. Yin chose a small grove of trees – an urban oasis...

An Angry Dog is a hand-held animation made from a Cracker Jack toy.

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...

In It Dawn Down an ordinary take-up reel spins to make colorful and delicate patterns even though the film is black and white.

This is a portrait of my wife, the artist Katy Martin in her studio painting directly on her own body while imagining a wild animal. While not...

The Central Finger (16mm, silent, 5 1/2 minutes, 1974).

Consisting of a 300-foot-long painting made on reflective material, Masstransiscope is a public artwork visible from the subway tunnels of the...

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"...

Three friends on a Montevideo Art Deco apartment roof, one in a rabbit mask, climb up a tower and fall through the looking glass into a 1950’s...

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

This is my digital/analog contribution to “Xochimilco Treasure Hunting” in Mexico City on the final day of "HAZLO TU MISMO,"...

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...