Bill Brown

Biography

Bill Brown is a media artist interested in ways landscape is interpreted, appropriated, and reconfigured according to human desires, memories, and dreams. His films have screened at venues around the world, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and Lincoln Center. A retrospective of his films was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to his filmmaking, Brown is the co-founder of the Zine Machine: Durham Printed Matter Festival, and the Cosmic Rays Film Festival, an annual showcase of experimental and first-person films.

Directed

1. Buffalo Common (2002) — Director
2. Confederation Park (1999) — Director
3. Roswell (1994) — Director
4. Mountain State (2003) — Director
5. A Question of Reentry (2016) — Director
6. Document (2011) — Director
7. Speculation Nation (2014) — Director
8. Letters to Caveh (2001-2004) — Director
9. Memorial Land (2012) — Director
10. Chicago Corner (2009) — Director
11. The Other Side (2006) — Director
12. Uranus (2010) — Director
13. Hub City (1997) — Director
14. XCTRY (2018) — Director
15. Life on the Mississippi (2019) — Director
16. Amarillo Ramp (2017) — Director
17. Kustom Kamera Kommandos (2005) — Director
18. Montreal (2024) — Director
19. Chicago Detroit Split (2005) — Director
20. Our One — Director

Also appeared in

1. Roswell (1994) — Narrator