John Sanborn Movies

Conceived & Performed by David Van Tieghem, Produced & Directed by John Sanborn, 1979

"Awakening from the 20th Century" contends with the collision between the actual and the virtual in the city of San Francisco. "Is life becoming...

Employing single-frame edits from broadcast television, the artists construct a rapid-fire media barrage of sound and image.

This work explores perception, time and memory, based on the concept that "science has yet to determine the actual resolution of the eye." Using...

Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented...

Created in 1984 for the opening of the Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. By Dean Winkler and John Sanborn. Music by Jamaaladen Tacuma.

Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.

Commercial for spray-on video

In Visual Shuffle, Moulton's choreography becomes part of a fantastic landscape of floating pop icons and symbols.

Endance is a witty take-off of a public television documentary. Choreographer Tim Buckley solemnly discusses his life, work, and decision to stop...

Sister Suzie Cinema is a fantasy about fantasies - about the way movies, music and other cultural artifacts shape what we feel.

Shot in Saskatchewan, And Now This... transforms landscape through technology, evoking the pristine lines of wheat fields and abandoned farm...

Short by John Sanborn