Bill Brand

Bill Brand

Known for

Directing

Born

March 27, 1949 (age 77)

Birthplace

Rochester, New York, USA

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...

Best known work

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
1997
Cartoons: An Angry Dog
Cartoons: An Angry Dog
1974
Rate of Change
Rate of Change
1972
Huevos a la mexicana
Huevos a la mexicana
2018
Split Decision
Split Decision
1979
Masstransiscope
Masstransiscope
1980
Susie's Ghost
Susie's Ghost
2011
Skinside Out
Skinside Out
2002
Swan’s Island
Swan’s Island
2005
Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1974

Filmography

  1. 2021

    Ornithology 6

    Director

  2. 2019

  3. 2018

  4. 2016

  5. 2015

  6. 2011

  7. 2011

    Sicómoro

    Director

  8. 2011

  9. 2011

  10. 2005

  11. 2003

  12. 2002

    Skinside Out

    Director

  13. 1999

  14. 1999

  15. 1998

  16. 1998

  17. 1998

  18. 1997

  19. 1991

    Home Less Home

    Director, Writer

  20. 1985

  21. 1984

    Coalfields

    Director

  22. 1983

  23. 1982

  24. 1980

  25. 1979

    Split Decision

    as Bar Crowd, Director

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