Bill Brand

Biography

Bill Brand is a multi-disciplinary artist whose films, public artwork, installations, paintings and works-on-paper have exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries microcinemas and on television. His 1980 Masstransiscope, an animated mural installed in the New York City subway, is in the MTA Arts and Design permanent collection. Bill Brand’s artwork has been featured at Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Anthology Film Archive and Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. He is represented by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris and Court Tree Gallery, Brooklyn. His films have been presented at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, New Directors/ New Films Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival. His films are discussed in histories of cinema including the books Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine (2015) by Kathryn Ramey; Results You Can’t Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, (2006) edited by Andrew Lampert, Documentary, A History of the Non-Fiction Film, (1992) by Erik Barnouw; and Allegories of Cinema, (1990) by David James. Brand’s work has also been written about in news an…

Directed

1. Cartoons: An Angry Dog (1974) — Director
2. Rate of Change (1972) — Director
3. Huevos a la mexicana (2018) — Director
4. Masstransiscope (1980) — Director
5. Split Decision (1979) — Director
6. Susie's Ghost (2011) — Director
7. Cartoons: It Dawn Down (1974) — Director
8. Skinside Out (2002) — Director
9. Cartoons: The Central Finger (1974) — Director
10. Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1974) — Director
11. Swan’s Island (2005) — Director
12. Cartoons: Before the Fact (1974) — Director
13. Angular Momentum (1973) — Director
14. Circles of Confusion (1974) — Director
15. August Garden (2019) — Director
16. Home Less Home (1991) — Director
17. Sound Strip/Film Strip (1972) — Director
18. Cartoons: New York State Primaries (1975) — Director
19. Coalfields (1984) — Director
20. Cartoons: Still at Work (1975) — Director
21. Moment (1972) — Director
22. Demolition of a Wall (1973) — Director
23. Suite: Interior Outpost (2003) — Director
24. Always Open/Never Closed (1971) — Director
25. Chuck's Will's Widow (1982) — Director
26. Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune (1972) — Director
27. The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt (1976) — Director
28. Works in the Field (1978) — Director
29. Tree (1970) — Director
30. Touch Tone Phone Film (1973) — Director
31. Organic Afghan (1969) — Director
32. Tracy's Family Folk Festival (1983) — Director
33. I'm a Pilot Like You (1999) — Director
34. Suite: My Father's Leg (1998) — Director
35. Suite: Double Nephrectomy (1998) — Director
36. Suite: Moxibustion (1999) — Director
37. Suite: Gazelle (1998) — Director
38. Sicómoro (2011) — Director
39. Rampla Juniors (2011) — Director
40. Down the Alley (2011) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Split Decision (1979) — Bar Crowd
2. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)