Movies: Bill Brand

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2002
    Skinside Out

    Skinside Out (2002)

    Skinside Out

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    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 looking -- at the edge of repulsion -- and the implications of making public an essentially private gestur...

    Skinside Out
  • 1972
    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip (1972)

    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 opening exhibition of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,Texas. “...Sound Strip / Film Strip consist...

    Sound Strip/Film Strip
  • 1979
    Split Decision

    Split Decision (1979)

    Split Decision

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    This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges d...

    Split Decision
  • 1972
    Moment

    Moment (1972)

    Moment

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    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 divided and rearranged 7 times in reverse order. Each time the divisions are greater in number (smaller...

    Moment
  • 1973
    Touch Tone Phone Film

    Touch Tone Phone Film (1973)

    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. Although the event is recorded on film, we only see it as a sliding strip....

    Touch Tone Phone Film
  • 1983
    Tracy's Family Folk Festival

    Tracy's Family Folk Festival (1983)

    Tracy's Family Folk Festival

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    This is an impressionistic portrayal of the 1982 folk festival at Tracy and Eloise Schwarz’s farm in Central Pennsylvania. The festival, dedicated that year to the legendary Elizabeth Cotton, includes Bluegrass, Old Timey, Cajun, Country, and Gospel ...

    Tracy's Family Folk Festival
  • 1980
    Masstransiscope

    Masstransiscope (1980)

    Masstransiscope

    101980HD

    Consisting of a 300-foot-long painting made on reflective material, Masstransiscope is a public artwork visible from the subway tunnels of the Manhattan-bound B and Q lines. It is in a special enclosure with 228 narrow slits and fluorescent lights. T...

    Masstransiscope
  • 1974
    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    Cartoons: Before the Fact (1974)

    Cartoons: Before the Fact

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    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 and then try to imitate each other imitating the recording....

    Cartoons: Before the Fact
  • 1984
    Coalfields

    Coalfields (1984)

    Coalfields

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    West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes into a semi-abstract kinetic field. The technique developed by Brand in his earlier films, extends the alr...

    Coalfields
  • 2018
    Huevos a la mexicana

    Huevos a la mexicana (2018)

    Huevos a la mexicana

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    This is my digital/analog contribution to “Xochimilco Treasure Hunting” in Mexico City on the final day of "HAZLO TU MISMO," Do-it-Yourself Independent Analog Film Laboratory Encounter, Sept. 9, 2018....

    Huevos a la mexicana
  • 1982
    Chuck's Will's Widow

    Chuck's Will's Widow (1982)

    Chuck's Will's Widow

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    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 through a field of swirling shapes, the fragmented landscapes weave an emotional fabric containing i...

    Chuck's Will's Widow
  • 1991
    Home Less Home

    Home Less Home (1991)

    Home Less Home

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    People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices. Told as a personal journey, the film gives a broad analysis of the causes and conditions of homelessness while it analyzes news, T...

    Home Less Home
  • 2011
    Susie's Ghost

    Susie's Ghost (2011)

    Susie's Ghost

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    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" refers more generally to lingering feelings of loss. The cinematography and performance both express a tentative pr...

    Susie's Ghost
  • 1974
    Circles of Confusion

    Circles of Confusion (1974)

    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 variety of secondary colors. The term, circles of confusion belongs to the physics of the lenses. Here i...

    Circles of Confusion
  • 2003
    Interior Outpost

    Interior Outpost (2003)

    Interior Outpost

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    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 the family experience of illness and death. —Bill Brand...

    Interior Outpost
  • 1974
    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    Cartoons: The Central Finger (1974)

    Cartoons: The Central Finger

    101974HD

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

    Cartoons: The Central Finger
  • 2019
    August Garden

    August Garden (2019)

    August Garden

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    Scattered in seemingly random order, on the screen, we see the light that traverses the kinetic fields of Bill Brand’s latest film August Garden. Made for a group exhibition at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre (Paris), the film accompanies a series of flower ...

    August Garden
  • 1972
    Rate of Change

    Rate of Change (1972)

    Rate of Change

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    This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are so slow as to be unseen, yet they alter our perception of colour. Part of a trilogy (Acts of Light), w...

    Rate of Change
  • 1975
    Cartoons: Still at Work

    Cartoons: Still at Work (1975)

    Cartoons: Still at Work

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    Still at Work, a self-portrait of the artist in his places of work: the studio in Lower Manhattan and Sarah Lawrence College, the school where he taught. The film animates a still photograph through a grid of random dots....

    Cartoons: Still at Work