Bill Brand Resume

Bill Brand
108 Franklin Street #4W
New York, New York 10013
tel: (212) 966-6253
fax: (212) 334-8747
e-mail:bbrand@pipeline.com

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Selected Filmography/Videography:

Thirty-three experimental and documentary films and videos since 1969 including:

Swan's Island (2005)
Suite (1996-2003)
Skinside Out (2002)
I'm a Pilot Like You (2000)
Home Less Home (1990)
Coalfields (1984)
Chuck's Will's Widow (1982)
Works in the Field (1978)
Angular Momentum (1973)
Moment (1972)
Pong Ping Pong, film and sound environment (1971)

(complete Filmography Videography)

Selected Exhibitions:

Cinema Project, Portland, OR (2007)
Results You Can't Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, Anthology Film Archive, NY (2006)
Colour After Klein: Films , Barbican Art Gallery, London (2005)
Shanghai Doulun Art Museum, China, “12+” solo exhibition (2004)
Chicago Filmmakers 30th Anniversary Show, Anthology Film Archive, NY (2004)
Tribeca Film Festival (2003, 06)
BAM Next Wave Festival (2002)
Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy (2001)
Bennington College (2000)
Dallas Video Festival (2000, 2004)
Whitney Museum of Art, "American Century" (1999)
Barbican Centre, London (1998)
Harvard University Carpenter Center (1997)
New Directors/ New Films (1991, 2007)
Berlin Film Festival (1991)
Rotterdam International Film Festival (1992, 2008)
JFK Center for the Performing Arts (1991)
Pacific Film Archives (1983,86,91, 93, 2007)
George Eastman House (1991)
Museum of Modern Art (1978)
Whitney Museum of American Art (1975)
Anthology Film Archives (1973, 77)
Millennium Film Workshop (1973, 77, 79)
Collective for Living Cinema (1978, 79, 84)
San Francisco Cinematheque (1979, 83, 2003)
Chicago Filmmakers (1973, 77, 79, 91,2003)

Selected Grants and Fellowships:

Massachusetts Cultural Council (1994)
National Endowment for the Arts (1978, 90)
New York State Council on the Arts (1978, 87, 89)
American Film Institute (1982)
Jerome Foundation (1984)
New York Foundation for the Arts (1985, 90)
New York Council for the Humanities (1989)

Television Broadcasts:

WNET Independent Focus
ZDF Germany
Access Network Canada
NHK Japan
SBS Australia
Danmark Radio Denmark
Tevel Israel
RTE Ireland
Super Channel, England

Selected Bibliography:

Andrew Lampert, Results You Can't Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics (2006)
Brian Frye, Film History, "The Accidental Preservationist: an Interview with Bill Brand" (2003)
Paula Rabinowitz, They Must Be Represented (1996)
Erik Barnouw, Documentary, A History of the Non-Fiction Film (1992)
David James, Allegories of Cinema (1990)
Janet Maslin, The New York Times (1991)
Variety (1991)
Armond White, The City Sun (1991)
Paul Arthur, Cineaste (1991)
J. Hoberman, Village Voice (1984)
B. Ruby Rich, Reader (1979)
Jonathan Buchsbaum, Millennium Film Journal (1979)
Noel Carroll, Soho Weekly News (1978)
Ian Christie Studio International (1974)
Jonas Mekas, Village Voice (1973)

Public Art Work:

Masstransiscope, a permanent installation in the New York City subway which looks like an animated movie when seen from passing trains. It consists of 228 hand-painted panels in a 300 foot illuminated enclosure.

Selected Teaching Experience:

Hampshire College, Professor of Film and Photography (1991-present)
New York University, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program, Adjunct (2005-present)
CUNY, Hunter College (1985-87)
Sarah Lawrence College (1975-85)

Education:

Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts (1972)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts (1974)

Selected Awards:

Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honoree (2006)
Hampshire College, MacArthur Chair (1994-97)
American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon for Home Less Home (1991)
Ann Arbor Film Festival for Coalfields (1985)
Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA for Chuck's Will's Widow (1983)
Municipal Art Society of New York, Certificate of Merit for Masstransiscope (1981)

Organizational Activities:

Parabola Arts Foundation, Inc., founding member and artistic director (1981-present)
NEA/Soros Foundation Arts Link, panelist (1997)
Massachusetts College of Art, peer review panel for Media and Performing Arts Department (1996)
New England Film Festival, jurist (1992)
Jerome Foundation, NYC Film/Video panelist (1989-91)
National Endowment for the Arts/Jerome Foundation Midwest Regional, film/video panelist (1985-88)
Collective for Living Cinema, officer of the board of directors (1985-91)
Chicago Filmmakers, founder (1973)

Other Professional Activities:

BB Optics, an optical printing service specializing in archival preservation and blow-ups from 8mm and super-8 since 1976 with contracts including:

The National Archives Nixon Presidential Library
The New York Public Library
The Museum of Modern Art
The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS

Trustee, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (2008-)
Consultant/panelist at the Guggenheim Museum's conference, "Preserving the Immaterial" (2001)
Panelist at the Association of Moving Image Archivists' annual conference, Portland, Oregon (2001)

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