William Brown is a Vancouver based, British academic, author and filmmaker of low and zero-budget films. He is most notable for his 2013 non-fiction book Supercinema.
Brown obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor of Film at the University of British Columbia.
He previously taught at the University of St Andrews, the University of Roehampton, and NYU Abu Dhabi.
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 which influenced in Paul Virilio's 2016 book Drone Age Cinema.
Bloomsbury published his 2018 book Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude.
He is also the co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Brown has made many zero-budget or micro-budget short and feature films through his film company Beg Steal Borrow: