(Director/Producer)
Sabean is an editor, producer & filmmaker, whose output includes independent narrative & documentary features, commercial video, and a large body of experimental work.
His doc film work includes, “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground”, “The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics”, “Healing from Hate”, “Angry White Men & American Masculinity”, “You Throw Like a Girl: The Blindspot of Masculinity”, and “The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism”.
Choreographer Paul Taylor has called his experimental films “superb – like poems made visible.”
He has an MFA from Boston University in Film Production.
Please List the Title of Your Film at BIFF 2025
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
What was your first experience with film and how did it influence your first project?
I had lots of emotional experiences watching films as a kid that showed me the emotional impact cinema can have on human beings. I would list Places in the Heart…Paris, Texas (the first film I ever watched and then immediately watched again)…ET and Quest for Fire among the most memorable.
Who is (are) your favorite filmmakers?
There are so many. It is tought to choose. I lived John Cassavetes, Yasujiro Ozu, Abbas Kiarostami, Jay Rosenblatt, Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson in film school and still live off those fumes years later.
What are you working on that no one knows about?
Nothing Gold Can Stay. A 10-minute short film that I just finished in which the timeless words of Shakespeare’s Richard II explore the relentless grip of addiction. Through a fusion of AI-generated visuals and classic text, we witness a descent and ultimate reckoning.
Who would play you in a movie? What’s your go to movie snack? What’s the film title that best describes your life?
Alexander Kaidanovsky, if it is just entertainment then popcorn, but if it is a work of art then nothing, Minnie and Moskowitz
