Bill Brand Movies

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...

A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure of...

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

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

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"...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...