The Tenth Legion

Synopsis: “Following Sonbert’s death in 1995, we recovered a 16mm reversal print of THE TENTH LEGION among the materials in the filmmaker’s estate, which Sonbert had struck before disassembling it and recutting sections into CARRIAGE TRADE.

“Unseen for decades, this film represents a major rediscovery in Sonbert’s oeuvre. The film stylistically exemplifies the artist’s masterful use of a constantly moving hand-held camera as it trails the college-age protagonists in choreographed fashion, and of chiaroscuro lighting effects in interior scenes. ‘People engaged in their living, in their purpose, in their contribution, however trivial or important, to the work of the world.’ (Gregg Barrios, Hollywood Harbinger, April 1982) (From Canyon Cinema.)

Wavelength

Synopsis: The film is a continuous zoom which takes 45 minutes to go from its widest field to its smallest and final field. It was shot with a fixed camera from one end of an 80 foot loft, shooting the other end, a row of windows and the street …. The room (and the zoom) are interrupted by four human events including a death. The sound on these occasions is sync sound, music and speech, occurring simultaneously with an electronic sound, a sine-wave …. It is a total glissando while the film is a crescendo and a dispersed spectrum which attempts to utilize the gifts of both prophecy and memory which only film and music have to offer. (from the Film-makers’ Cooperative)

Fuses

Synopsis: A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch. (from Carolee’s official site)