About

Known credits:
31
Birthday:
1949-03-27
Place of birth:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Bill Brand

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1985 Home Movies 1971-81 Actor N/A
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1979 Split Decision Actor Bar Crowd 59
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Directing
2019 August Garden Directing Director 59
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2018 Huevos a la mexicana Directing Director 59
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2011 Susie's Ghost Directing Director 59
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2005 Swan’s Island Directing Director 59
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2003 Interior Outpost Directing Director N/A
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2002 Skinside Out Directing Director 59
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1991 Home Less Home Directing Director N/A
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1984 Coalfields Directing Director 59
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1982 Chuck's Will's Widow Directing Director N/A
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1980 Masstransiscope Directing Director 59
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1979 Split Decision Directing Director 59
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1975 Cartoons: New York State Primaries Directing Director 59
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1975 Cartoons: Still at Work Directing Director 59
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1974 Cartoons: An Angry Dog Directing Director 59
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1974 Cartoons: The Central Finger Directing Director 59
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1974 Circles of Confusion Directing Director 59
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1974 Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Directing Director 59
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1974 Cartoons: Before the Fact Directing Director 59
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1974 Cartoons: It Dawn Down Directing Director 59
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1973 Demolition of a Wall Directing Director N/A
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1973 Angular Momentum Directing Director 59
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1972 Moment Directing Director N/A
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1972 Sound Strip/Film Strip Directing Director N/A
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1972 Rate of Change Directing Director 59
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1972 Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune Directing Director N/A
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1971 Always Open Never Closed Directing Director N/A
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Editing
1973 Demolition of a Wall Editing Editor N/A
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1972 Moment Editing Editor N/A
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1972 Rate of Change Editing Editor 59
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