Keith Sanborn Movies
- 1989

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...
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- 1997

The Vision Machine
The Vision Machine01997HD
Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...
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- 1993

The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
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- 2015

Energy of Delusion
Energy of Delusion02015HD
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...
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- 2007

365 Day Project
365 Day Project102007HD
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...
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- 1999

Mirror
Mirror61999HD
Joan of Arc and Dorothy of Kansas become one thanks to Hildegard von Bingen.
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- 1970

Heretic
Heretic01970HD
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...
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- 2025

Dreadful Penny Dreadful
Dreadful Penny Dreadful02025HD
“DREADFUL PENNY DREADFUL dares to violate every remaining shred of ‘good taste’ using the vehicle of Brecht and Weill’s...
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- 2012

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...
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- 2023

Slow Death
Slow Death02023HD
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.
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- 1982

Palace of Error
Palace of Error01982HD
“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad
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- 1991

The Gift
The Gift01991HD
An experimental film essay on architectural excess, with its aim not functional shelter but conspicuous destruction of wealth
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- 1999

The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination
The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination01999HD
Various permutations and combinations of the Zapruder footage of the assassination of JFK. Intended as an investigation of the footage as visual,...
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- 1986

Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What
Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What01986HD
A film by Keith Sanborn
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- 2024

Negative Capability
Negative Capability02024HD
An exploration of Keats’s proposition, that “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable...
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- 2023

Terrain
Terrain02023HD
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.
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- 1982

Kapital
Kapital01982HD
1982, 3.5 min, 16mm, anaglyph 3D
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- 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...
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- 2001

Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)
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A philosophical dream narrative, structured around conceptions and representations of the reversibility and irreversibility of time and desire. The...
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- 1988

1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime
1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime01988HD
8mm-to-digital and 16mm projector performance. This work includes the film NAVIGATION, which has been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.
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