Bill Brand Movies

  • 1974
    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down

    101974HD

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

    Cartoons: It Dawn Down
  • 2003
    Interior Outpost

    Interior Outpost

    Interior Outpost

    02003HD

    Here, my body is explicitly a screen on which I project my father’s photographs of the family to articulate my position of difference within...

    Interior Outpost
  • 1972
    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    01972HD

    Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

    Sound Strip/Film Strip
  • 1991
    Home Less Home

    Home Less Home

    Home Less Home

    01991HD

    People who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences dispelling common misconceptions and prejudices. Told as a personal journey,...

    Home Less Home
  • 1973
    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    Demolition of a Wall

    01973HD

    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...

    Demolition of a Wall
  • 1972
    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

    01972HD

    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,...

    Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
  • 1971
    Always Open Never Closed

    Always Open Never Closed

    Always Open Never Closed

    01971HD

    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...

    Always Open Never Closed