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Fellow Traveler: The Cinema of Warren Sonbert
A Concerto (Program One)

Screening on Film

Carriage Trade is arguably Sonbert’s magnum opus—in a literal sense, as this is Sonbert’s longest film, but also as the first full emergence of his montage-based style. His next two films, Rude Awakening and Divided Loyalties, show the filmmaker experimenting with varying subject and tone while exploring a similar editing strategy. Later, Sonbert would describe these three films as fitting together like the movements of a concerto: “first movement setting the scene and longest in time and investigation; the second movement a dark melancholy adagio; the third a breezy rondo to clear if not quite dispel the heavy air, gracious, with a let’s-get-on-with-life feeling.”

PROGRAM

  • Carriage Trade

    Directed by Warren Sonbert.
    US, 1972, 16mm, color, silent, 61 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Rude Awakening

    Directed by Warren Sonbert.
    US, 1976, 16mm, color, silent, 36 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Divided Loyalties

    Directed by Warren Sonbert.
    US, 1978, 35mm, color, silent, 22 min.
    Print source: HFA

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