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.

Sabine Gruffat

Sabine Gruffat is a media artist living and working in Madison, WI. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Currently Sabine is an Assistant Professor of Digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Split Film Festival in Croatia, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, the Dallas Video Festival, Migrating Forms in New York, The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and The Gramercy Theater in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General and Hudson Franklin in New York, Brissot-Linz Gallery in Paris, the Rochester Art Center, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil.

Sabine Gruffat has also co-directed several films and videos with filmmaker Ben Russell and has been on bicycle and film tours across France and Switzerland (La Cyclocinematheque) with filmmaker Bill Brown. Last Spring she toured the East coast with video maker Mary Billyou and performed as the Free Translators. Currently she is working on a feature film about Dubai and Detroit.

http://www.sabinegruffat.com/BIKEBOX/