John Sanborn Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

Commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, Olympic Fragments is a taut, expressive reinterpretation of athletic...

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

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

Italian video producer Magmart asked me to participate in their F.I.V.E. project - a collection of 25 artists exploring the five senses. This series...

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

Video gallery of the seminal artist's work.

Short by John Sanborn

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

The Planets is an epic video feature commissioned by the new music ensemble Relâche. The score took composer Kyle Gann twelve years to complete...