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
  • 2001
    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)

    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)

    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)

    62001HD

    A philosophical dream narrative, structured around conceptions and representations of the reversibility and irreversibility of time and desire. The...

    Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)
  • 1991
    The Gift

    The Gift

    The Gift

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    An experimental film essay on architectural excess, with its aim not functional shelter but conspicuous destruction of wealth

    The Gift
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    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,...

    The Genius
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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