Keith Sanborn Movies

  • 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
  • 1982
    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

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    Finally, manipulating the "natural" flow of the film image represents another kind of intrinsic interruption. I have in mind such devices as...

    Imitation of Life
  • 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
  • 2025
    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    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...

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful
  • 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
  • 1988
    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    A Public Appearance and a Statement

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    In one incredibly long take we see the arrival and disappearance of John Kennedy's body as it is delivered from Dallas aboard Air Force One.

    A Public Appearance and a Statement
  • 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
  • 2015
    Energy of Delusion

    Energy of Delusion

    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...

    Energy of Delusion
  • 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