Amphetamine was Sonbert’s first film, a mini-epic of drugs and sex (in order both of importance and of appearance onscreen) that finds him squarely under the spell of Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol, and similarly grounded in an innate and insightful understanding of form. Noblesse Oblige and Short Fuse are the two of Sonbert’s later films with the greatest emphasis on queer culture, with prominent place given to footage of the San Francisco riots that followed Dan White’s acquittal for the George Moscone and Harvey Milk assassinations, and ACT UP demonstrations, respectively. Sonbert expert Jon Gartenberg has described Whiplash as “an elegiac meditation on his own mortality.”