William Brown
Biography
William Brown is a Cinema Studies scholar and professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published numerous essays in journals and edited collections, and is also the author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (with David H. Fleming). Furthermore, he is also a maker of zero- to low-budget films, all produced under the umbrella of Beg Steal Borrow.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as G20 Protestor
Dennis, an introverted baker one day discovers a mobile phone containing nothing but a video of a girl seemingly being raped by a gang of youths. When Dennis discovers that the kids are disaffected teenagers staging street crimes and the like to entertain themselves, he is drawn into a world that is far from the quiet existence he normally leads.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Himself
An essay-film that tries to understand the phenomenon of the selfie from within – that is, by taking moving image selfies every day for most of 2014.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Will
Six characters in search of a zombie apocalypse in France’s Périgord region; a searing insight into the decadent lifestyles of the British upper middle class, Ur follows Will, Dennis, Laura and Rosie, who have come to visit Alex and Edward in Bergerac, France. Edward loves Rosie. Alex seduces Rosie. Alex also seduces Laura. Will is having a nervous breakdown. Dennis is trying to put his life back together. Will then gets bitten when out running - and turns into a zombie. Do the others kill him or keep him?
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Himself
A series of epistolary films exchanged over the course of 2017 and 2018 between Macedonian experimental filmmaker Vladimir Najdovski and William Brown.