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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1949-03-27
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 0.7
- info Birth Place Rochester, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Bill Brand
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Masstransiscope
1980-01-01
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Split Decision
1979-01-01
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Susie's Ghost
2011-01-01
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Skinside Out
2002-01-01
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Swan’s Island
2005-01-01
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Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1974-01-01
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Cartoons: The Central Finger
1974-01-01
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Cartoons: It Dawn Down
1974-01-01
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Cartoons: An Angry Dog
1974-01-01
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Rate of Change
1972-01-01
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Rate of Change
1972-01-01
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Moment
1972-11-09
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Moment
1972-11-09
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Cartoons: Before the Fact
1974-01-01
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Demolition of a Wall
1973-06-11
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Demolition of a Wall
1973-06-11
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Huevos a la mexicana
2018-09-09
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Angular Momentum
1973-01-01
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Circles of Confusion
1974-01-01
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August Garden
2019-08-13
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Interior Outpost
2003-01-01
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Home Less Home
1991-11-02
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Sound Strip/Film Strip
1972-03-01
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Always Open Never Closed
1971-01-01
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Chuck's Will's Widow
1982-01-01
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Cartoons: New York State Primaries
1975-01-01
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Coalfields
1984-01-01
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Cartoons: Still at Work
1975-01-01
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Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
1972-01-01