Keith Sanborn Movies

  • 1999
    The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination

    The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination

    The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination

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    Various permutations and combinations of the Zapruder footage of the assassination of JFK. Intended as an investigation of the footage as visual,...

    The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination
  • 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
  • 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

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    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
  • 1997
    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

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

    The Vision Machine
  • 2004
    Operation Double Trouble

    Operation Double Trouble

    Operation Double Trouble

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    A simple and, possibly as a result of this, effective reworking of a recent propaganda film. The original film is Enduring Freedom: The Opening...

    Operation Double Trouble
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

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    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
  • 1982
    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

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

    Palace of Error
  • 2024
    Joan's Studio

    Joan's Studio

    Joan's Studio

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    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

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    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
  • 1989
    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    The Deadman

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    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