Warren Sonbert Movies

  • 1966
    Hall of Mirrors

    Hall of Mirrors

    Hall of Mirrors

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    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...

    Hall of Mirrors
  • 1971
    Johnny Minotaur

    Johnny Minotaur

    Johnny Minotaur

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    Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles...

    Johnny Minotaur
  • 1968
    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful

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    One of the most profound themes coursing throughout Sonbert's work is that of love between couples in all its pitfalls and perfect moments. To...

    The Bad and the Beautiful
  • 1972
    Carriage Trade

    Carriage Trade

    Carriage Trade

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    Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact...

    Carriage Trade
  • 1989
    Friendly Witness

    Friendly Witness

    Friendly Witness

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    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 -...

    Friendly Witness
  • 1978
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

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    Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 1992
    Short Fuse

    Short Fuse

    Short Fuse

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    Sonbert was also a noted opera critic, and he frequently theorized about the relationship of film to other art forms, in particular, music. He...

    Short Fuse
  • 1967
    In Search of the Miraculous

    In Search of the Miraculous

    In Search of the Miraculous

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    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...

    In Search of the Miraculous
  • 1997
    Whiplash

    Whiplash

    Whiplash

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    During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his...

    Whiplash
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

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    "The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

    The Stone Age
  • 1976
    Rude Awakening

    Rude Awakening

    Rude Awakening

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    Sonbert's vivid color palette enhances the ritualistic nature of each action observed. Set against this lush panorama, Sonbert subverts the...

    Rude Awakening
  • 1981
    Noblesse Oblige

    Noblesse Oblige

    Noblesse Oblige

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    The style is relatively unchanged, but the images--press conferences, news events, disasters--convey his vision of the world in a new, direct,...

    Noblesse Oblige
  • 1966
    Amphetamine

    Amphetamine

    Amphetamine

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    An ode to queer sex and drugs, boys shooting up and kissing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.

    Amphetamine
  • 1988
    Honor and Obey

    Honor and Obey

    Honor and Obey

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    In Warren Sonbert's Honor and Obey soldiers march in formation, a tiger stalks through the snow, religious processions wind through the streets, and...

    Honor and Obey
  • 1967
    Truth Serum

    Truth Serum

    Truth Serum

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    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...

    Truth Serum
  • 1966
    Where Did Our Love Go

    Where Did Our Love Go

    Where Did Our Love Go

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    Warhol Factory days... serendipity visits, Janis and Castelli and Bellevue glances... Malanga at work ... glances at Le Mépris and North by...

    Where Did Our Love Go
  • 1968
    Holiday

    Holiday

    Holiday

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    Experimental short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.

    Holiday
  • 1983
    A Woman's Touch

    A Woman's Touch

    A Woman's Touch

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    Sonbert was also a noted film critic, and his writings about feature films are among his more extraordinarily profound and insightful creations. In...

    A Woman's Touch
  • 1967
    Ted and Jessica

    Ted and Jessica

    Ted and Jessica

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    A snippet of a seemingly lost film, added here solely for stunting purposes.

    Ted and Jessica
  • 1986
    The Cup and the Lip

    The Cup and the Lip

    The Cup and the Lip

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    The Cup and the Lip is a complex and challenging picture that will stimulate adventurous filmmakers for years to come. Although its imagery is too...

    The Cup and the Lip