Bill Brown is a "nomadic" filmmaker, photographer, and author from Lubbock, Texas.
Style, output and other projects Brown has produced films on the United States–Mexico border, North Dakota missile silos, the Trans-Canada Highway, among other places. The films have been exhibited at numerous film festivals and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He describes his films as postcards with a pretty picture but instead of words on the back, his films are narrated with voiceoverInterview with Bill Brown.
Brown is also the author of a zine called Dream Whip which currently has 15 issues, and the book Saugus to the Sea (). In 2001 Brown received the Creative Capital Award in the Discipline of Moving Image.
Films Roswell (1994) Hub City (1996) Confederation Park (1999) Buffalo Common (2001) Mountain State (2003) The Other Side (2006) Chicago Corner (2009) Document (2012) Memorial Land (2012) Speculation Nation (2014) co-directed by Sabine Gruffat Amarillo Ramp (2017) co-directed by Sabine Gruffat XCTRY (2018) Life on the Mississippi (2018)
External links Bill Brown's website Youtube films
Dream Whip Zine Samples and Collections from Dream Whip Cosmic Rays Experimental Film Festival Zine Machine: Durham Printed Matter Festival Vimeo page
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