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 and journal articles by Janet Maslin, Jonas Mekas, J. Hoberman, B. Ruby Rich, Ian Christie, Noel Carroll and Randy Kennedy among others. Bill Brand is Professor Emeritus at Hampshire College and teaches Film Preservation at New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program. He is co-owner of BB Optics, Inc., a company that specializes in archival film preservation and post-production services. Bill Brand founded the showcase and workshop Chicago Filmmakers in 1973, and served on the Board of Directors of the Collective for Living Cinema until 1991 in New York City. He co-founded Parabola Arts in 1981 and is currently an artistic director. He served on the board of trustees for The Flaherty (2008-15) and is an advisor to the Orphan Film Symposium and Mono No Aware. Bill Brand lives in New York City with his wife, the artist Katy Martin.

Known for

Cartoons: An Angry Dog

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
1985	Home Movies 1971-81
1979	Split Decision	Bar Crowd

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2019	August Garden	Director
2018	Huevos a la mexicana	Director
2011	Susie's Ghost	Director
2005	Swan’s Island	Director
2003	Interior Outpost	Director
2002	Skinside Out	Director
1991	Home Less Home	Director
1984	Coalfields	Director
1982	Chuck's Will's Widow	Director
1980	Masstransiscope	Director
1979	Split Decision	Director
1975	Cartoons: New York State Primaries	Director
1975	Cartoons: Still at Work	Director
1974	Cartoons: An Angry Dog	Director
1974	Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Director
1974	Cartoons: The Central Finger	Director
1974	Cartoons: It Dawn Down	Director
1974	Cartoons: Before the Fact	Director
1974	Circles of Confusion	Director
1973	Angular Momentum	Director
1973	Demolition of a Wall	Director
1973	Demolition of a Wall	Editor
1972	Rate of Change	Director
1972	Rate of Change	Editor
1972	Moment	Director
1972	Moment	Editor
1972	Sound Strip/Film Strip	Director
1972	Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune	Director
1971	Always Open Never Closed	Director