William Brown (author)

William Brown
Ph.D
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forWriting, filmmaking
Notable workSupercinema,
Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude
Websitehttps://begstealborrowfilms.com/

William Brown is a Vancouver based,[1] British academic, author and filmmaker of low and zero-budget films. He is most notable for his 2013 non-fiction book Supercinema.

Education and academic career

Brown obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2007.[1] He is currently an Associate Professor of Film at the University of British Columbia.[2]

He previously taught at the University of St Andrews,[1] the University of Roehampton,[3] and NYU Abu Dhabi.[2]

Publications

Books

He is the author of the 2013 non-fiction film philosophy book Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age and co-author of the 2010 book Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe[4][5] which influenced in Paul Virilio's 2016 book Drone Age Cinema.[6]

Bloomsbury published his 2018 book Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude.[7][8]

He is also the co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (Bloomsbury, 2018).[9]

Book chapters

Films

Brown has made many zero-budget or micro-budget short and feature films through his film company Beg Steal Borrow:[3][10]

  1. En Attendant Godard (Waiting for Godard) (Sight & Sound Films of the Year 2009)
  2. Afterimages (Sight & Sound Films of the Year 2010)[11]
  3. Common Ground (Fest Film Festival 2013; American Online Film Awards Spring Showcase 2014)
  4. China: A User's Manual (FILMS) (2012)
  5. Selfie (2014)
  6. Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015)[12]
  7. The New Hope (2015)[13]
  8. Letters to Ariadne (2016)
  9. Circle/Line (East End Film Festival in 2017)
  10. #randomaccessmemory (2017)
  11. St Mary Magdalen's Home Movies (2017)
  12. Sculptures of London (2017)
  13. Clem (2018)
  14. Vladimir and William (2018)
  15. La Belle Noise (2019)
  16. The Benefit of Doubt (2019)
  17. Golden Gate (Sight & Sound Video-Essays of the Year 2020)
  18. The New Hope 2 (2020)
  19. This is Cinema (IndieCork Film Festival 2021)
  20. App 666 (Vancouver Small File Media Festival 2024)
  21. Cake and Death (DOXA Film Festival 2024)

References

  1. ^ a b c "About". 2 September 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "William Brown". Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  3. ^ a b "William Brown". The Conversation. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ^ Sticchi, Francesco (2 October 2015). "Supercinema: Film-Philosophy For the Digital Age". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 13 (4): 452–456. doi:10.1080/17400309.2015.1061408. ISSN 1740-0309. S2CID 194406790.
  5. ^ "REVIEW Supercinema; film-philosophy for the digital age". Reference & Research Book News. 28: 207. 1 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 13 August 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  7. ^ Pavlova, Yoana (10 August 2018). "On William Brown's 'Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude' -". Vague Visages. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  8. ^ Turina, Romana (4 August 2020). "Non-cinema: global digital film-making and the multitude". Transnational Screens. 11 (2): 171–173. doi:10.1080/25785273.2020.1785148. ISSN 2578-5273. S2CID 221055772.
  9. ^ Jenner, Joseph (2021). "William Brown and David H. Fleming, The Squid Cinema From Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia". Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture. 8 (1): 1–3. ISSN 2416-111X.
  10. ^ "begstealborrowfilms vimeo". Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  11. ^ "Afterimages (2010)". 5 October 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  12. ^ Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015) (in Czech), retrieved 29 March 2022
  13. ^ "The New Hope (2015)". 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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