John Sanborn Trailers
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Most Popular John Sanborn Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
Exquisite Moving Corpse Trailer (2022)
09 May 2022
The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter.
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies Trailer (1981)
11 May 1981
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962).
In C, Too Trailer (2024)
19 January 2024
"In C, Too" illuminates how close our dreams are to a common reality. Through structured visual improvisational techniques, the work explores how humanity survives because of our imagination and desire to transcend.
Renaissance Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Created in 1984 for the opening of the Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. By Dean Winkler and John Sanborn.
How to Fly Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc.
ALLoT (A Long List of Things) Trailer (2014)
01 October 2014
Director John Sanborn attends his 40th high school reunion with a film crew to interview former classmates and gain a measure of closure on some open-ended chapters in his life.
PICO (reMIX) Trailer (2012)
14 September 2012
A video memoir in which artist John Sanborn explores the seismic artistic upheaval wrought by three great artists: John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Nam June Paik, celebrating the ways each artist challenged assumptions about what defines an artist, art, and the relationship of creator to audience.
Perfect Lives Trailer (1984)
16 February 1984
Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al.
Black & White Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Employing single-frame edits from broadcast television, the artists construct a rapid-fire media barrage of sound and image.
And Now This... Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Shot in Saskatchewan, And Now This... transforms landscape through technology, evoking the pristine lines of wheat fields and abandoned farm buildings.
Awakening from the 20th Century Trailer (1993)
30 May 1993
"Awakening from the 20th Century" contends with the collision between the actual and the virtual in the city of San Francisco.
Olympic Fragments Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, Olympic Fragments is a taut, expressive reinterpretation of athletic movement, a tour-de-force of dynamic editing and post-production techniques.
The Planets Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
The Planets is an epic video feature commissioned by the new music ensemble Relâche. The score took composer Kyle Gann twelve years to complete and became a multi-media immersion into the myths and mystery of the planets when Relâche commissioned video artist and director John Sanborn to take viewers on a journey out into space, and inside the play between reality and fantasia.
Ear to the Ground Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
In Ear to the Ground, David Van Tieghem uses the city of Manhattan as his musical instrument, playing the surfaces of the sidewalks, buildings and phone booths with his drumsticks to elicit an ingenious range of percussive sounds.
Resolution of the Eye Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
This work explores perception, time and memory, based on the concept that "science has yet to determine the actual resolution of the eye.
Sister Suzie Cinema Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Sister Suzie Cinema is a fantasy about fantasies - about the way movies, music and other cultural artifacts shape what we feel.
Intemerata Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
Italian video producer Magmart asked me to participate in their F.I.V.E. project - a collection of 25 artists exploring the five senses.
Luminare Trailer (1986)
02 May 1986
Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.
Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video Trailer (1978)
11 April 1978
This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.
Ear-Responsibility Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A sequel to Ear to the Ground, Ear-Responsibility finds avant-garde percussionist David Van Tieghem roaming the streets of New York, discovering the inherent rhythms and music in ordinary objects, from sidewalks to subway cars.
The Works of M. C. Escher Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Video gallery of the seminal artist's work.
Theology Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Computer animation that follows a mysterious egg, directed by art pop musician Todd Rundgren. 3 years of production for 3 mins of animation.
Triple Trouble Trailer (2022)
29 July 2022
In the year 2023, following the death of Randy Rose, the lead singer of The Residents, his son Randy Junior discovers that his father's ashes have been stolen and listed for sale on eBay by a mysterious culprit.
The Eyes Scream: A History of the Residents Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
This documentary is a history of The Residents hosted by Penn & Teller. It contains excerpts from most of their videos and some are in their complete form.
Endance Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Endance is a witty take-off of a public television documentary. Choreographer Tim Buckley solemnly discusses his life, work, and decision to stop dancing, in a convinving narrative built on a false premise: the end of a dancer's career.
The Residents' God in 3 Persons Trailer (2023)
21 April 2023
A live adaptation of art rock band The Residents' 1988 concept album about a disgraced evangelist and his obsession with gender-fluid conjoined twins.
Untitled Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Untitled pays tribute to the life and work of the dancer and choreographer Arnie Zane, who died of AIDS in 1988.
Visual Shuffle Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
In Visual Shuffle, Moulton's choreography becomes part of a fantastic landscape of floating pop icons and symbols.
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America.
