Keith Sanborn Movies

1988
Fascination
Fascination
01988HD
1980-88, 11 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Separate digital soundtrack accompaniment.
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.
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
1982
Palace of Error
Palace of Error
01982HD
“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad
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
2024
Joan's Studio
Joan's Studio
02024HD
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...
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
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,...