Bill Brown

Bike box from Bill Brown on Vimeo.

Bill Brown is a film and video maker living and working in Madison, WI. He received a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His films have appeared at various venues around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Viennale Festival, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is the recipient of Fulbright, Creative Capital, Rockefeller, and Alpert/MacDowell Fellowships. An enthusiastic believer in the DIY media tour, he has toured by car, train, bus, and bike. He founded the Lo Fi Landscapes tour with filmmaker Tom Comerford, toured the U.S. by bicycle on the Pedal Powered Movie Tour, and toured France and Switzerland with fellow cyclo-cineaste Sabine Gruffat. He has participated in art residencies at the MacDowell Colony, as well as the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Wendover Residency, where he constructed a railbike-- a bicycle built to explore the abandoned Nevada Northern Railroad in northeastern Nevada.

In the summer of 2009, Brown and Gruffat toured the west coast with a multimedia performance piece called TIME MACHINE.