Alberte Pagán

BILL BRAND interviewed

Getting Inside the Frame

BILL BRAND interviewed

Getting Inside the Frame

Bill Brand interviewed by Alberte Pagán

[published in A Cuarta Parede in three parts on 22, 24 and 26 July 2019] [miña tradución ao galego aquí; traducción de A Cuarta Parede al español aquí]
[collected in the book Emotional Materials / Personal Processes. Six Interviews with Experimental Filmmakers, StereoEditions, 2022]

Filmography of Bill Brand

Organic Afghan (1969, 4’, color, sound)
Tree (1970, 8’, b&w, sound)
Always Open/Never Closed (1971, 13’, color, silent)
Pong Ping Pong (1971, 25’, film and sound environment)
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune (1972, 8’, color, silent)
Moment (1972, 25’, b&w, sound)
ACTS OF LIGHT (1972-74, 55’, color, sound)

Includes 3 films:
Rate of Change (1972, 18’, color, sound)
Angular Momentum (1973, 20’, color, sound)
Circles of Confusion (1974, 15’, color, sound)

Touch Tone Phone Film (1973, 8’, b&w, sound)
Demolition Of A Wall (1973, 30’, b&w, sound)
CARTOONS (1974-75, 40’, color and b&w, sound and silent)

Includes 7 films:
Before The Fact (1974, 6’, color, sound)
An Angry Dog (1974, 5’30’’, color, silent)
It Dawn Down (1974, 5’30’’, color, silent)
The Central Finger (1974, 5’30’’, color, silent)
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin (1975, 4’, color, silent)
New York State Primaries (1975, 5’30’’, color, sound)
Still at Work (1975, 4’, color, sound)

The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt (1976, 35’, color, sound)
Texas Farm Workers March For Human Rights (1977, 7’, color, sound)
Works In The Field (1978, 40’, color, silent)
Split Decision (1979, 15’, color, sound)
Chuck’s Will’s Widow (1982, 13’, color, silent)
Tracy’s Family Folk Festival (1983, 10’, color, sound)
Coalfields (1984, 39’, color, sound)
Home Less Home (1990, 75’, color, sound)
I’m a Pilot Like You (1999, 40’, color, sound, co-directed with Ruth Hardinger)
SUITE (1996-2003, 29’, color, sound)

Includes 5 films:
My Father’s Leg (1997-1998, 3’, color, silent)
Gazelle (1998, 3’30’’, color, sound)
Double Nephrectomy (1998, 4’, color, sound)
Moxibution (1999, 9’, color, sound)
Interior Outpost (2003, 9’, color, sound)


Skinside Out (2002, 10’, color, sound, co-directed with Katy Martin)
Swan’s Island (2005, 4’, color, sound, co-directed with Katy Martin)
Mistakes, Out Takes and Good Deeds (2006, looped, color, silent, 3 projector film and video installation)
Susie’s Ghost (2011, 7’, color, sound, in collaboration with Ruthie Marantz)
Rampla Juniors (2011, 16’, color, sound)
Down The Alley (2011, 8’, color, sound)
Sicómoro (2011, 5’, color, sound, text by Carolina Noblega)
Ornithology 4 (2015, 4’ loop, color, silent)
Orchard-Market (2016, 16’, color, silent)
Autopsy (2017, performance and video projection)
Huevos a la mexicana (2018, 13’, color, sound)
August Garden (2019, 5′, color, sound)

Bill Brand shooting mattes off a computer in 1977. Still from an 8mm film by Katy Martin. (Photo courtesy of Bill Brand.)

Score for Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune. (Photo courtesy of Bill Brand.)

Pong Ping Pong drawing. Bill Brand, ink on paper, 18″ x 12″, 1971.

Angular Momentum: “relational change”.

Moment: “automobile time”.

Split Decision.

Huevos a la mexicana.

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