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To Add: a source for "my magnum opus"

Filmmakers Cooperative catalogue listing: http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_author=717

Canyon Cinema listing: http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=292

Examiner obit to add http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Filmmaker-Warren-Sonbert-47-3144508.php

"both a probing and playful artist and a keen intellect reveling in the interplay between all the creative arts."

—Jon Gartenberg http://history.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=196&searchfield=

If Warren Sonbert's "Short Fuse," superficially seems like the happiest film of the three, an undercurrent of rage seeps through the cracks of its ebullient surface. Like Mr. Sonbert's earlier films, "Short Fuse" at first seems to be a random selection of film clips celebrating the diversity and liveliness of a world in which almost everybody is hard at play. Surfers, a basketball game, parades, hang-gliders, amusement park rides, Las Vegas casinos and all kinds of fun are shown. A wonderfully diverse soundtrack includes the opening movement of Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto, the Platters' version of "Ebb Tide," Richard Rodgers's "Victory at Sea" music, Glenn Miller's "There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover" and Laura Branigan's disco hit "Gloria."

But not all is frolic and joy. There are vintage film clips of air and sea battles from World War II. And idyllic shots of male couples are countered with shots of violent demonstrations in San Francisco against the police by the AIDS protest group Act Up.

If the film expresses its political rage almost subliminally, the point is not lost. In contrasting the winning of World War II with the fight against AIDS, it asks why the same extraordinary teamwork isn't being used in the war that hasn't been won. - Stephen Holden

"Critics have tried to pin down Sonbert's cinema with catchy formulations . . . . His works are not really diary films, since their carefully shaped contours are determined more by aesthetic insight than daily experience, and to compare them with 'explosions in a postcard factory' is to acknowledge their boisterous variety while missing their ecstatic precision," wrote Christian Science Monitor review David Sterritt.

Quoted in ¨Warren Sonbert¨ by Alan Bernheimer at http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/documents/obits/sonbert.html

while "critics have tried to pin down Sonbert's cinema with catchy formulations," David Sterritt said, "his works are not really diary films, since their carefully shaped contours are determined more by aesthetic insight than daily experience, and to compare them with 'explosions in a postcard factory' is to acknowledge their boisterous variety while missing their ecstatic precision."

"Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) holds a unique place in American independent film. On one hand he shows the distinct influence of Hitchcock and the Hollywood melodramas of Douglas Sirk, and on the other he was a rigorous avant-gardist." (Source?) http://www.pd.org/~eyedrum/calendar/?eventTypeId=3&id=3769&month=10&year=2010

Media Arts Fellow 1991

Warren Sonbert started making films in 1966 while studying at New York University. His work was widely exhibited at festivals and other venues in the United States and Europe. A pre-eminent practitioner of montage, Sonbert was honored with retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1983; the Berlin Film Festival, 1987; the Centre Beaubourg, Paris, 1987; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994; the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1999, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000. His work was included in six Whitney Biennials and six Cineprobe screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His final film, Whiplash, had a posthumous world premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1997. A film and music critic for the Bay Area Reporter and The Advocate, among others, Sonbert taught filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College. He died of complications following AIDS in 1995.

http://mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=44

INTERNET ARCHIVE: https://web.archive.org/web/20110526082206/http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=44

Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008septoct/sonbert.html September 26 - September 28 Fellow Traveler: The Cinema of Warren Sonbert

Warren Sonbert May 31 to June 5, 2005 Austrian FilmMuseum http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1215680369645

Tate Modern http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/eventseries/warren-sonbert Warren Sonbert Retrospective of seminal American experimental filmmaker Tate Modern Thursday 24 October – Sunday 27 October 2013

Like Andy Warhol? Meet filmmaker Warren Sonbert By James Boaden 21 October 2013 http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/andy-warhol-filmmaker-warren-sonbert