Bill Brand Movies

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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"...

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

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...

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...

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

This double portrait cinematically projects my sister's wound onto my own body and psyche. Shortly after she received a living donor kidney from a...

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

Katy Martin paints directly on her skin, and uses her whole body to make marks with the paint. Bill Brand frames the action and its trace, in the...

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...

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