Keith Sanborn Movies

2007
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...
2013
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
22013HD
"The Gillian Hills Trilogy" is a three-part project celebrating the screen presence of Gillia Hills in three of her most widely seen but unrecognized...
2024
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...
2023
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.
1982
Kapital
Kapital
01982HD
1982, 3.5 min, 16mm, anaglyph 3D
1988
Fascination
Fascination
01988HD
1980-88, 11 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Separate digital soundtrack accompaniment.
1970
Heretic
Heretic
01970HD
Heretic is composed from the outtakes of Joe Gibbons's no-budget feature The Genius, set to John Zorn's Naked City "soundtrack" album Heretic, and...
2023
Terrain
Terrain
02023HD
A short essay on the triangular Square du Vert-Galant, one of the favorite repairs of the vanishing Paris of Guy Debord. Yet another slow film.
1999
Mirror
Mirror
61999HD
Joan of Arc and Dorothy of Kansas become one thanks to Hildegard von Bingen.
1996
The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn
The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn
01996HD
An attempt to problematize ownership and authorship in the age of digital reproduction. Inspired by the Walter Benjamin essay of the same name and...
2019
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
2001
Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)
Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)
62001HD
A philosophical dream narrative, structured around conceptions and representations of the reversibility and irreversibility of time and desire. The...
1988
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.
1982
Man with a Movie Camera (Blonde; He Appears to Be Young)
Man with a Movie Camera (Blonde; He Appears to Be Young)
01982HD
"A didactic treatment of the Reagan assassination event /coverage as spectacle. Nearly anyone in the world who turned on a television that day, or...
1986
Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What
Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What
01986HD
A film by Keith Sanborn
1999
The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination
The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination
01999HD
Various permutations and combinations of the Zapruder footage of the assassination of JFK. Intended as an investigation of the footage as visual,...
1988
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.
1993
The Genius
The Genius
71993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
2008
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...
2025
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...