Keith Sanborn Movies

2024
Negative Capability
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...
1999
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,...
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...
2019
One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation
One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation
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2019, 1 min, digital
1991
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
1996
The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn
The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn
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An attempt to problematize ownership and authorship in the age of digital reproduction. Inspired by the Walter Benjamin essay of the same name and...
1988
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.
1982
Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life
01982HD
Finally, manipulating the "natural" flow of the film image represents another kind of intrinsic interruption. I have in mind such devices as...