Bill Brand Movies

This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are...

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...

New York State Primaries shows stenciled lettering that dissolve between the words, “red,” “blue,” and “green”...

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,...

An old tree sits on a mound in an Ohio farm field. The filming of the tree and the metrical editing of the film is organized around the tree's...

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

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

Katy Martin paints directly on her skin, and uses her whole body to make marks with the paint. Bill Brand frames the action and its trace, in the...

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...

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

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

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

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

DEMOLITION OF A WALL takes six frames of the falling wall from the 1896 Lumiere film and reorders these six frames in all their permutations. With a...