Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s videos, photographs and installations reinterpret the people, activities and objects of their everyday life and engage the edge between the heroic and tragic. They navigate perceptions of identity, emotion and family within a uniquely American subjectivity.

Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s work has been included in film festivals, galleries and museums internationally including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Butler Institute of American Art, Houston Center for Photography and Dallas Contemporary. They have been awarded residencies with Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York and Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY as well grants from Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, Ohio Arts Council, Houston Arts Alliance and a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography.  

They live and work in Houston TX where Mary Masgamen is the curator for the mirco-cinema The Aurora Picture Show and Stephan Hillerbrand teaches in the University of Houston Digital Media Program.