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Masstransiscope restored 2008

Bill Brand's 1980 public artwork restored in 2008 can be seen on the Q and B trains from DeKalb Ave. in Brooklyn going into Manhattan toward Canal ...

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  Swan's Island (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Swan's Island by Bill Brand

  2006, 16mm, color, 5 min

  SWAN'S ISLAND explores gesture in painting, and how that relates to the hand held camera. Kat...

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  Masstransiscope Debut

  Bill Brands Masstransiscope was installed in the abandoned Myrtle Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York in September 1980. It has been seen b...

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  Bill Brand - Art Underground | SundayArts

  Deep, down in a dark abandoned Brooklyn subway station lies a Masstransiscope. No, it is not some mythological monster from the deep... it is a cre...

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Rate of Change: Acts of Light Part 1 (excerpt)

Rate of Change: Acts of Light Part 1 by Bill Brand

1974, 16mm, color, 17 min

ACTS OF LIGHT is a trilogy consisting of RATE OF CHANGE, ANGULAR MOMEN...

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  Susie's Ghost (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Susie's Ghost by Bill Brand

  2011, 16mm, DVD_NTSC, color, 7 min

  In collaboration with Ruthie Marantz. When shooting SUSIE'S GHOST, I was mourning t...

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  Tree (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Tree by Bill Brand

  1970, 16mm, black and white, 8 min

  An old tree sits on a mound in an Ohio farm field. The filming of tree is organized around it...

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  Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune by Bill Brand

  1972, 16mm, color, 8 min

  A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a c...

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Angular Momentum: Acts of Light Part 2 (excerpt) by Bill Brand

Angular Momentum: Acts of Light Part 2 by Bill Brand

1974, 16mm, color, 20 min

Here, by contrast, the film is richly sensuous. Again nearly continu...

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  Chuck's Will's Widow (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Chuck's Will's Widow by Bill Brand

  1982, 16mm, color, 12 min

  ... weaves a complex of feelings and personal associations into a swirl of landscapes ...

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  Circles of Confusion: Acts Of Light Part 3 (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Circles of Confusion: Acts Of Light Part 3 by Bill Brand

  1974, 16mm, color, 14.5 min

  In this film, circles of colored light (red, green, blue) puls...

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  Coalfields (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Coalfields by Bill Brand

  1984, 16mm, DVD NTSC, color, 38.5 min

  West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged through a series of mattes that tra...

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Demolition of a Wall (excerpt) by Bill Brand

Demolition of a Wall by Bill Brand

1973, 16mm, black and white, 27 min

After showing 1896 Lumiere film, DEMOLITION OF A WALL in its entirety, this ...

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  Double Nephrectomy (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Double Nephrectomy by Bill Brand

  1998, DVD NTSC, sound, 4 min

  [Part of the Suite compilation.] This double portrait cinematically projects my siste...

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  Gazelle (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Gazelle by Bill Brand

  1998, DVD NTSC, color, sound, 3.5 min

  This is a portrait of my wife, the artist Katy Martin in her studio painting directly o...

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  The Trail to Koskimo, His First Hunt (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  The Trail to Koskimo, His First Hunt by Bill Brand

  1975, 16mm, color, 34 min

  Picture are seen through a maze of swarming dots. Sometimes the dots ...

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Skinside Out (excerpt) by Bill Brand

Skinside Out by Bill Brand

2002, 16mm, color, 10 min

Skinside Out -- by Bill Brand and Katy Martin -- features paint on skin, carried out in an ex...

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  Interior Outpost by Bill Brand

  Interior Outpost by Bill Brand

  2003, DVD NTSC, sound, 9 min

  Here, my body is explicitly a screen on which I project photographs from the family arc...

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  My Father's Leg (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  My Father's Leg by Bill Brand

  1996, DVD NTSC, silent, 2.5 min

  In this self-portrait I imagine the disease and pain which caused my father's death t...

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  Home Less Home (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Home Less Home by Bill Brand

  1991, 16mm, color, 75 min

  In HOME LESS HOME people who are homeless reveal homelessness from their own experiences di...

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Moxibustion (excerpt) by Bill Brand

Moxibustion by Bill Brand

1999, DVD NTSC, sound, 8.5 min

Also a double portrait, this video is an inside-out variation on DOUBLE NEPHRECTOMY. Here,...

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  Moment (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Moment by Bill Brand

  1972, 16mm, black and white, 23.5 min

  A view of a gas station is seen from inside, behind a multi-paneled tire ad display. In ...

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  Works in the Field (excerpt) by Bill Brand

  Works in the Field by Bill Brand

  1978, 16mm, color, 39.5 min

  WORKS IN THE FIELD consists of a series of short films which make use of computer gene...

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