Sabine Gruffat Movies

A last stand for the silent guardians of the old order. Take It Down is a filmic day of reckoning for the Old Confederate South. What is up must come...

Framelines is an abstract scratch film made by laser etching abstract patterns on the film emulsion of negative and positive 35mm film. The strips of...

In this impressionistic documentary film, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown travel across Spain to explore responses to the housing crisis of the early...

This video retells and disorders an important of a pre-Columbian Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis,...

I Have Always Been A Dreamer is a documentary travelogue and film portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and...

In MOUNTAIN—made at the Experimental Television Center—abstract shapes and signals overlay and intersect each other. Some shapes move as...

The everyday performance of domestic labor is teleported into a surreal game world where an emotionally responsive AI chatbot provides no answers. In...

In this video, 35mm archival silent documentary film footage shot by Henry Ford’s own filmmakers is reworked and given a soundtrack revealing...

From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it.

Perhaps best known for his Spiral Jetty, sculptor Robert Smithson’s interest in landscape and land use was prophetic. In 1973, Texas oil...

A Return to The Return to Reason is a tribute to Man Ray's 1923 film "Le Retour à La Raison" (A return to Reason), the first film to use his...

These films were made from The New York Times newspaper articles. The semi - automated animation process resulted in sentence recombinations that...