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Warren Sonbert (1947-1995), was one of the key figures of American independent filmmaking. Works spanning Sonbert's entire career are now available for rental through Canyon Cinema, beginning with AMPHETAMINE (1966), made when he was still a teenager at New York University film school, through WHIPLASH (1995/1997), completed posthumously according to the filmmaker's specific instructions. Sonbert was the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in April-May 1999, guest curated by Jon Gartenberg. These new prints were struck directly from the preservation internegatives made by the Academy Film Archive from the camera original and original prints in the Estate of Warren Sonbert.
Most Popular Warren Sonbert Trailers
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01 January 1981
The style is relatively unchanged, but the images--press conferences, news events, disasters--convey his vision of the world in a new, direct, political fashion.
01 January 1983
Sonbert was also a noted film critic, and his writings about feature films are among his more extraordinarily profound and insightful creations.
01 January 1997
During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his companion, Ascension Serrano, detailed instructions about the assembly of specific shots and the music to be used as a counterpoint to the images.
07 April 1971
Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.
02 November 1966
Warhol Factory days... serendipity visits, Janis and Castelli and Bellevue glances... Malanga at work .
31 January 1970
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
29 July 1976
Sonbert's vivid color palette enhances the ritualistic nature of each action observed. Set against this lush panorama, Sonbert subverts the expectation of classic cinematography with a liberal sprinkling of avant-garde techniques.
02 November 1966
This film is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert's film classes at NYU, in which he was given outtakes from a Hollywood film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence.
20 October 1986
The Cup and the Lip is a complex and challenging picture that will stimulate adventurous filmmakers for years to come.
09 September 1967
In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and Introspection, only a poet could create.
01 January 1988
In Warren Sonbert's Honor and Obey soldiers march in formation, a tiger stalks through the snow, religious processions wind through the streets, and palm trees wave in a tropical breeze.
01 January 1978
Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.
01 January 1991
In Warren, Scher turns the table on his former teacher and mentor, creating an intimate dialogue between friends as well as a battle of directorial wills, at a moment when Scher recognized that Sonbert was becoming ill.
02 November 1966
An ode to queer sex and drugs, boys shooting up and kissing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.
02 May 1968
Experimental short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.
20 January 1992
Sonbert was also a noted opera critic, and he frequently theorized about the relationship of film to other art forms, in particular, music.
19 May 1967
Truth Serum is a rare work by Sonbert made in New York City in 1967. The completed film (that is missing its original soundtrack) provides a unique glimpse into his life and friends at the time including fellow filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiller.
29 November 1972
Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact from the camera original.
01 January 1989
In Friendly Witness, Sonbert returned, after 20 years, to sound. In the first section of the film, he deftly edits a swirling montage of images - suggestive of loves gained and love lost--to the tunes of four rock songs.
25 January 1968
A snippet of a seemingly lost film, added here solely for stunting purposes.
03 May 1968
One of the most profound themes coursing throughout Sonbert's work is that of love between couples in all its pitfalls and perfect moments.
17 March 1967
Following Sonbert's death in 1995, we recovered a 16mm reversal print of THE TENTH LEGION among the materials in the filmmaker's estate, which Sonbert had struck before disassembling it and recutting sections into CARRIAGE TRADE.
26 January 1969
About this film, Sonbert wrote in the London Filmmakers' Co-op catalogue: "New York again and some Morocco.
