ADVENTUROUS MONTAGE Arindam Sen on “Pont aeri: El cinema de Warren Sonbert” at Filmoteca de Catalunya
When Warren Sonbert began making films as a teenager, Andy Warhol’s early filmic works were a major source of inspiration for him. Like many other New York based filmmakers of his generation – such as David Brooks, Robert Beavers, and Tom Chomont – Sonbert developed an experimental style early on that was also strongly influenced by Gregory Markopoulos, who became his mentor. Sonbert’s characteristic montage technique is often considered diaristically motivated – an illusion that Arindam Sen effectively refutes in the review of a recent touring retrospective in Spain. As Sen elucidates, the filmmaker’s kaleidoscopic compositions are, in fact, more conceptually crafted – guided by grand themes and very specific formal decisions – than an initial impression suggests.
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