John Sanborn Movies

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...

A boy travels through the world of M.C. Escher.

Short film by John Sanborn

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

Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.

With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize...

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

A live adaptation of art rock band The Residents' 1988 concept album about a disgraced evangelist and his obsession with gender-fluid conjoined twins.

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

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

A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...

A video memoir in which artist John Sanborn explores the seismic artistic upheaval wrought by three great artists: John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Nam...

Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.

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

This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

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

Short by John Sanborn

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

In the year 2023, following the death of Randy Rose, the lead singer of The Residents, his son Randy Junior discovers that his father's ashes have...