Warren Sonbert
Time Travels
“Carriage Trade … is about travel, transportation, anthropological investigation: 4 continents, 4 organized religions, customs; about time with its 6 years in the making and cast of thousands; about how the same people age and grow and even change apartments over 6 years.”
—Warren Sonbert
The elegant and elegiac Carriage Trade anchors this very fitting August program on travel with three diverse films each exploring spaces and places through montage, time lapse and, in Lelouch’s case, high speed cinema vérité through the early morning streets of Paris. Lelouch’s C’était un rendezvous has been somewhat of a legend amongst car racing enthusiasts and filmmakers [how many films can you say that about!?] for its thrilling high speed nine-minute single-take adrenalin rush. Coney by Caroline and Frank Mouris is filled with their customary cut-up animation–this time with a year-round time lapse portrait of Coney Island with a mesmerizing calliope-induced soundtrack–all shot through a lovely pink ‘cotton candy’ filter.
Programme:
Carriage Trade, Warren Sonbert, 1971, 61 minutes, 16mm, colour, silent
Coney, Caroline & Frank Mouris, 1975, 5 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound
C’était un rendezvous, Claude Lelouch, 1975, 8 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound
@ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
Tuesday August 18, 2009. 8:00pm screening
Carriage Trade
Coney
C'était un rendezvous