Keith Sanborn Movies
- 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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- 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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- 2007

365 Day Project
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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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- 1970

Heretic
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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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- 1993

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,...
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- 2024

Negative Capability
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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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- 1982

Palace of Error
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“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad
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- 1999

Mirror
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Joan of Arc and Dorothy of Kansas become one thanks to Hildegard von Bingen.
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- 2015

Energy of Delusion
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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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- 2023

Slow Death
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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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- 2025

Dreadful Penny Dreadful
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“DREADFUL PENNY DREADFUL dares to violate every remaining shred of ‘good taste’ using the vehicle of Brecht and Weill’s...
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- 1988

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.
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- 2023

Terrain
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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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- 2008

The Force of Beauty, The Beauty of Force
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Based on a series of ads in 2008 on Телеканал звезда [the...
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- 1982

Man with a Movie Camera (Blonde; He Appears to Be Young)
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"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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- 2000

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...
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- 1988

Fascination
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1980-88, 11 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Separate digital soundtrack accompaniment.
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- 2004

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...
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- 2019

One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation
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2019, 1 min, digital
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- 1982

Kapital
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1982, 3.5 min, 16mm, anaglyph 3D
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