Bill Brand Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Nearly continuous colour changes rotating around a spectrum, occurring at varying speeds of rotation and in varying values of light. Colours are seen...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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....

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,...

SICÓMORO is a meditation on travel and home revealed through ornate doors and architectural details in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay. The...

A claymation and abstract object animation consisting of organic shapes and crocheted afghan squares synchronized to an original guitar duet by...

Also a double portrait, this video is an inside-out variation on DOUBLE NEPHRECTOMY. Here, the video uses projected light to penetrate my own body...

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...

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

ORNITHOLOGY 4 was displayed in 2016 in "Peephole Cinema - Kintoscopic Records," a showcase of contemporary media artists evoking the proto- and early...