Bill Brandborn 1949

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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.

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August Garden
August Garden

2019

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Huevos a la mexicana
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Susie's Ghost
Susie's Ghost

2011

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Swan’s Island
Swan’s Island

2005

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Interior Outpost
Interior Outpost

2003

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Skinside Out
Skinside Out

2002

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I'm a Pilot Like You
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Home Less Home
Home Less Home

1991

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Coalfields
Coalfields

1984

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Chuck's Will's Widow
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Masstransiscope
Masstransiscope

1980

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Split Decision
Split Decision

1979

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Works in the Field
Works in the Field

1978

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Cartoons: New York State Primaries
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Cartoons: Still at Work
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Cartoons: An Angry Dog
Cartoons: An Angry Dog

1974

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Cartoons: It Dawn Down
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Cartoons: Before the Fact
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Circles of Confusion
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Demolition of a Wall
Demolition of a Wall

1973

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Touch Tone Phone Film
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Angular Momentum
Angular Momentum

1973

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Moment
Moment

1972

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Sound Strip/Film Strip
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Rate of Change
Rate of Change

1972

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Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

1972

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Always Open Never Closed
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Tree
Tree

1970

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Organic Afghan
Organic Afghan

1969

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