Keith Sanborn Movies

  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    102007HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 2001
    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)

    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)

    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)

    02001HD

    A philosophical dream narrative, structured around conceptions and representations of the reversibility and irreversibility of time and desire. The...

    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)
  • 1999
    Mirror

    Mirror

    Mirror

    61999HD

    Joan of Arc and Dorothy of Kansas become one thanks to Hildegard von Bingen.

    Mirror
  • 2025
    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    02025HD

    “DREADFUL PENNY DREADFUL dares to violate every remaining shred of ‘good taste’ using the vehicle of Brecht and Weill’s...

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

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    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

    The Genius
  • 2015
    Energy of Delusion

    Energy of Delusion

    Energy of Delusion

    02015HD

    My aim is to create a highly compressed museum of cinema, consisting of some of the most notoriously engaging, difficult, and lengthy works of film...

    Energy of Delusion
  • 1988
    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    01988HD

    In one incredibly long take we see the arrival and disappearance of John Kennedy's body as it is delivered from Dallas aboard Air Force One.

    A Public Appearance and a Statement
  • 1989
    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    4.31989HD

    Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in...

    The Deadman
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    12012HD

    Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 1997
    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    01997HD

    Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...

    The Vision Machine
  • 1988
    1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime

    1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime

    1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime

    01988HD

    8mm-to-digital and 16mm projector performance. This work includes the film NAVIGATION, which has been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

    1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime
  • 2024
    Joan's Studio

    Joan's Studio

    Joan's Studio

    02024HD

    An exploration of Joan Jonas’s studio in Nova Scotia in August 2019, by night with torch, but no spear. Special thanks to Peggy Ahwesh for...

    Joan's Studio
  • 2000
    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    02000HD

    Part three of a cycle of digital video works I'm beginning to call-after Bataille-«Theory of religion, theory of ecstasy.» The other two...

    For the Birds
  • 2023
    Slow Death

    Slow Death

    Slow Death

    02023HD

    A slow four-part film on death and the persistence of the dead. Where ignorant armies clash by night: the dolphin-torn and gong-tormented sea.

    Slow Death
  • 1991
    The Gift

    The Gift

    The Gift

    01991HD

    An experimental film essay on architectural excess, with its aim not functional shelter but conspicuous destruction of wealth

    The Gift
  • 1982
    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    01982HD

    “A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad

    Palace of Error
  • 2008
    The Force of Beauty, The Beauty of Force

    The Force of Beauty, The Beauty of Force

    The Force of Beauty, The Beauty of Force

    02008HD

    Based on a series of ads in 2008 on Телеканал звезда [the...

    The Force of Beauty, The Beauty of Force
  • 1988
    Fascination

    Fascination

    Fascination

    01988HD

    1980-88, 11 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Separate digital soundtrack accompaniment.

    Fascination
  • 2024
    Negative Capability

    Negative Capability

    Negative Capability

    02024HD

    An exploration of Keats’s proposition, that “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable...

    Negative Capability
  • 2019
    One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation

    One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation

    One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation

    02019HD

    2019, 1 min, digital

    One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation