Movies: Sabine Gruffat

  • 2021
    Moving or Being Moved

    Moving or Being Moved (2021)

    Moving or Being Moved

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    The everyday performance of domestic labor is teleported into a surreal game world where an emotionally responsive AI chatbot provides no answers. In this world, motion capture technology translates movement into data that can be unbound from the hum...

    Moving or Being Moved
  • 2004
    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians (2004)

    The Ataraxians

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    From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it....

    The Ataraxians
  • 2019
    Take It Down

    Take It Down (2019)

    Take It Down

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    A last stand for the silent guardians of the old order. Take It Down is a filmic day of reckoning for the Old Confederate South. What is up must come down, like the Confederate soldier monuments standing in court house squares across the South. At lo...

    Take It Down
  • 2017
    Framelines

    Framelines (2017)

    Framelines

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    Framelines is an abstract scratch film made by laser etching abstract patterns on the film emulsion of negative and positive 35mm film. The strips of film were then re-photographed on top of each other as photograms then contact printed. The soundtra...

    Framelines
  • 2015
    Brave New World

    Brave New World (2015)

    Brave New World

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    In this video, 35mm archival silent documentary film footage shot by Henry Ford’s own filmmakers is reworked and given a soundtrack revealing the colonial lens through which the filmmakers apprehended unfamiliar nature. Through editing and processing...

    Brave New World
  • 2017
    Amarillo Ramp

    Amarillo Ramp (2017)

    Amarillo Ramp

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    Perhaps best known for his Spiral Jetty, sculptor Robert Smithson’s interest in landscape and land use was prophetic. In 1973, Texas oil millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 commissioned Smithson to create an earthwork on Marsh’s cattle ranch north of Amarill...

    Amarillo Ramp
  • 2012
    I Have Always Been a Dreamer

    I Have Always Been a Dreamer (2012)

    I Have Always Been a Dreamer

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    I Have Always Been A Dreamer is a documentary travelogue and film portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, U.S.A. Within the context of a boom and bust economy, the film questions the collective ideologies ...

    I Have Always Been a Dreamer
  • 2009
    Mountain

    Mountain (2009)

    Mountain

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    In MOUNTAIN—made at the Experimental Television Center—abstract shapes and signals overlay and intersect each other. Some shapes move as if manipulated by hand, while others seem to morph smoothly as if computer- animated. At times, the sound is visi...

    Mountain
  • 2014
    Speculation Nation

    Speculation Nation (2014)

    Speculation Nation

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    In this impressionistic documentary film, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown travel across Spain to explore responses to the housing crisis of the early 2000s. The filmmakers visit families squatting in failed condo developments; intentional communities ...

    Speculation Nation
  • 2013
    A Return to The Return to Reason

    A Return to The Return to Reason (2013)

    A Return to The Return to Reason

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    A Return to The Return to Reason is a tribute to Man Ray's 1923 film "Le Retour à La Raison" (A return to Reason), the first film to use his 'Rayograph' technique in which Man Ray exposed found objects onto film negative. In this film the found obje...

    A Return to The Return to Reason
  • 2007
    Headlines: Hybrid Films

    Headlines: Hybrid Films (2007)

    Headlines: Hybrid Films

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    These films were made from The New York Times newspaper articles. The semi - automated animation process resulted in sentence recombinations that sometimes made sense while randomly emphasizing certain words and images. Each computer animation was t...

    Headlines: Hybrid Films
  • 2005
    To The South Was 72

    To The South Was 72 (2005)

    To The South Was 72

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    This video retells and disorders an important of a pre-Columbian Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri: a location that is visited, preserved, and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and prere...

    To The South Was 72