John Sanborn Movies

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

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

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing...

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...

Computer animation that follows a mysterious egg, directed by art pop musician Todd Rundgren. 3 years of production for 3 mins of animation.

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...

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...

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.

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