Keith Sanborn

Most Popular Keith Sanborn Trailers

Total trailers found: 29

The Vision Machine Trailer (1997)

02 January 1997

Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and merges film, video, and Pixelvision.

The Deadman Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

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 motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die — a combination of elegance, raunchy defilement and barbaric splendor.

Emma's Dilemma Trailer (2012)

18 June 2012

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 and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out.

The Genius Trailer (1993)

02 April 1993

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts.

Energy of Delusion Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

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 history—those nearly invisible works that explore the limit conditions of film.

Operation Double Trouble Trailer (2004)

29 January 2004

A simple and, possibly as a result of this, effective reworking of a recent propaganda film. The original film is Enduring Freedom: The Opening Chapter.

Palace of Error Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad

The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Various permutations and combinations of the Zapruder footage of the assassination of JFK. Intended as an investigation of the footage as visual, experiential, and cultural document.

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

01 January 2001

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

Negative Capability Trailer (2024)

01 January 2024

An exploration of Keats’s proposition, that “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason…the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Joan's Studio Trailer (2024)

01 January 2024

An exploration of Joan Jonas’s studio in Nova Scotia in August 2019, by night with torch, but no spear.

A Public Appearance and a Statement Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

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.

For the Birds Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Part three of a cycle of digital video works I'm beginning to call-after Bataille-«Theory of religion, theory of ecstasy.

The Force of Beauty, The Beauty of Force Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

Based on a series of ads in 2008 on Телеканал звезда [the Star Channel], owned by the Russian Department of Defense.

365 Day Project Trailer (2007)

31 December 2007

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.

The Gillian Hills Trilogy Trailer (2013)

11 August 2013

"The Gillian Hills Trilogy" is a three-part project celebrating the screen presence of Gillia Hills in three of her most widely seen but unrecognized roles A Clockwork Orange, Blow-Up, and Beat Girl.

Mirror Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Joan of Arc and Dorothy of Kansas become one thanks to Hildegard von Bingen.

Terrain Trailer (2023)

01 January 2023

A short essay on the triangular Square du Vert-Galant, one of the favorite repairs of the vanishing Paris of Guy Debord.

Dreadful Penny Dreadful Trailer (2025)

23 February 2025

“DREADFUL PENNY DREADFUL dares to violate every remaining shred of ‘good taste’ using the vehicle of Brecht and Weill’s much-abused ‘Moritat von Mackie Messer,’ aka ‘Mack the Knife.

The Gift Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

An experimental film essay on architectural excess, with its aim not functional shelter but conspicuh

Slow Death Trailer (2023)

01 January 2023

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.

One Minute for Jonas on the Day of His Occultation Trailer (2019)

23 January 2019

2019, 1 min, digital

Man with a Movie Camera (Blonde; He Appears to Be Young) Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

"A didactic treatment of the Reagan assassination event /coverage as spectacle. Nearly anyone in the world who turned on a television that day, or with regularity in the following six months, has had the images of the event burnt into his or her consciousness at the level of myth.

Kapital Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

1982, 3.5 min, 16mm, anaglyph 3D

1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

8mm-to-digital and 16mm projector performance. This work includes the film NAVIGATION, which has been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

An attempt to problematize ownership and authorship in the age of digital reproduction. Inspired by the Walter Benjamin essay of the same name and the activities of the Situationists.

Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

A film by Keith Sanborn

Imitation of Life Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

Finally, manipulating the "natural" flow of the film image represents another kind of intrinsic interruption.

Fascination Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

1980-88, 11 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Separate digital soundtrack accompaniment.