Sabine Gruffat Movies

  • 2004
    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    72004HD

    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
  • 2012
    I Have Always Been a Dreamer

    I Have Always Been a Dreamer

    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...

    I Have Always Been a Dreamer
  • 2015
    Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Brave New World

    02015HD

    In this video, 35mm archival silent documentary film footage shot by Henry Ford’s own filmmakers is reworked and given a soundtrack revealing...

    Brave New World
  • 2021
    Moving or Being Moved

    Moving or Being Moved

    Moving or Being Moved

    02021HD

    The everyday performance of domestic labor is teleported into a surreal game world where an emotionally responsive AI chatbot provides no answers. In...

    Moving or Being Moved
  • 2009
    Mountain

    Mountain

    Mountain

    02009HD

    In MOUNTAIN—made at the Experimental Television Center—abstract shapes and signals overlay and intersect each other. Some shapes move as...

    Mountain
  • 2013
    A Return to The Return to Reason

    A Return to The Return to Reason

    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...

    A Return to The Return to Reason
  • 2017
    Framelines

    Framelines

    Framelines

    02017HD

    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...

    Framelines
  • 2019
    Take It Down

    Take It Down

    Take It Down

    02019HD

    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...

    Take It Down
  • 2017
    Amarillo Ramp

    Amarillo Ramp

    Amarillo Ramp

    02017HD

    Perhaps best known for his Spiral Jetty, sculptor Robert Smithson’s interest in landscape and land use was prophetic. In 1973, Texas oil...

    Amarillo Ramp
  • 2014
    Speculation Nation

    Speculation Nation

    Speculation Nation

    02014HD

    In this impressionistic documentary film, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown travel across Spain to explore responses to the housing crisis of the early...

    Speculation Nation
  • 2007
    Headlines: Hybrid Films

    Headlines: Hybrid Films

    Headlines: Hybrid Films

    02007HD

    These films were made from The New York Times newspaper articles. The semi - automated animation process resulted in sentence recombinations that...

    Headlines: Hybrid Films
  • 2005
    To The South Was 72

    To The South Was 72

    To The South Was 72

    02005HD

    This video retells and disorders an important of a pre-Columbian Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis,...

    To The South Was 72