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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Keith Sanborn

Keith Sanborn at IFFR

  • Clear to Engage

    A careful deconstruction of one of the most revealing recordings made during the most recent Iraq war, the elimination of a couple of soldiers via sat

    • Exposing Cinema: Borderline Behaviour

  • Engaging with Keith Sanborn (Artists’ Talk)

    Media artist and theoretician Keith Sanborn expands on his current book on Dziga Vertov and on film projects in progress: Labyrinth of Solitude, Clear

    • Exposing Cinema: Borderline Behaviour

  • Mirror

    Ecstatic short video film mixes Hildegard von Bingen with the last visions of Jeanne D’Arc.

    • main programme short

  • Project for a New American Century

    A conceptual decoding of the rhetoric of the Bush administration, by tracing the intellectual roots of its members.

    • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals

  • Agrippina é Roma-Manhattan

    For this meditation on the pitfalls of appetite and greed, the artist refers to Agrippina, the widowed Roman aristocrat who wanted the blood of the Ca

    • Cinema Regained: Pièce Unique

  • For the Birds

    Abstract video art around an 11th-century mystic Sufi text.

    • main programme short

  • Kritik an Reiner’s Vernunft

    Processed television images from a contest for young Austrian accordion players.

    • exploding cinema

  • The Gillian Hills Trilogy

    Gillian Hills’s cameo appearances in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Antonioni’s Blow-Up didn’t make her famous, but she did have an intriguing caree

    • Signals: Regained

  • Operation Double Trouble

    Simple intervention makes army propaganda film stutter. Showing every scene twice instead of once destroys the heroism in one fell swoop.

    • Homefront USA

  • An Epilogue

    By evoking the Mechanical Turk, a legendary chess playing automaton, Sanborn addresses the problematic relationship between art and technology.

    • Nuts & Bolts