Bill Brand Movies

  • 2005
    Swan’s Island

    Swan’s Island

    Swan’s Island

    102005HD

    Katy Martin paints directly on her skin, and uses her whole body to make marks with the paint. Bill Brand frames the action and its trace, in the...

    Swan’s Island
  • 1980
    Masstransiscope

    Masstransiscope

    Masstransiscope

    101980HD

    Consisting of a 300-foot-long painting made on reflective material, Masstransiscope is a public artwork visible from the subway tunnels of the...

    Masstransiscope
  • 1999
    Suite: Moxibustion

    Suite: Moxibustion

    Suite: Moxibustion

    01999HD

    Also a double portrait, this video is an inside-out variation on DOUBLE NEPHRECTOMY. Here, the video uses projected light to penetrate my own body...

    Suite: Moxibustion
  • 2015
    Ornithology 4

    Ornithology 4

    Ornithology 4

    02015HD

    ORNITHOLOGY 4 was displayed in 2016 in "Peephole Cinema - Kintoscopic Records," a showcase of contemporary media artists evoking the proto- and early...

    Ornithology 4
  • 2011
    Susie's Ghost

    Susie's Ghost

    Susie's Ghost

    102011HD

    Susie's Ghost is about the mystery of the marks we make and leave behind. The “Susie” in the title refers to a sibling but the "ghost"...

    Susie's Ghost