Works In The Field
Stills
About
WORKS IN THE FIELD consists of a series of short films which make use of computer generated mattes to break up and reconstitute mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes, images from POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTFORUM covers, and a TV news program. When this is combined with a found documentary about a family life in Malaysia, the film becomes an essay on reading. The computer grid subdivides the screen into a system of rectangles which can be opened or closed. When opened, we see what is directly underneath the rectangle; when closed, we see a black block. Both the size and the speed at which the blocks opens or close can be regulated. The effect is like an accelerated game of Concentration. The open rectangles allow us to catch glimpses of images behind them. Initially it interferes with our ability to recognize objects but after a while it allows recognition. This recognition is thereby freed from the Renaissance perspective built into the photographic lens. The peculiar juxtaposition of the gridded sections and the Malaysia footage formulates an inquiry into the nature of meaning and representation in cinema.
Films
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Tree
Bill Brand16mm, black and white, sound, 8 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Always Open/Never Closed
Bill Brand16mm, color, silent, 11.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreInstallation
Pong Ping Pong
Bill Brand16mm, black and white, sound, 25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Moment
Bill Brand16mm, black and white, sound, 23.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune
Bill Brand16mm, color, silent, 8 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Demolition of a Wall
Bill Brand16mm, black and white, sound, 27 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Touch Tone Phone Film
Bill Brand16mm, black and white, sound, 7.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Angular Momentum: Acts of Light Part 2
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 20 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Circles of Confusion: Acts Of Light Part 3
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 14.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Rate of Change: Acts of Light Part 1
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 17 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimationExperimental
Cartoons
Bill Brand16mm, color and b/w, sound, 39.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimationExperimental
The Trail to Koskimo, His First Hunt
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 34 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimentalNarrative
Split Decision
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 15 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Chuck's Will's Widow
Bill Brand16mm, color, silent, 12 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Coalfields
Bill Brand16mm & DVD (sale only), color, sound, 38.5 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentary
Home Less Home
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Suite
Bill Brandcolor, sound, 28 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Skinside Out
Bill Brandcolor, sound, 10 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Swan's Island
Bill Brandcolor, sound, 5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreDocumentaryInstallation
Masstransiscope
Bill Brandcolor, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Susie's Ghost
Bill Brand16mm, color, sound, 7 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC