Director: Warren Sonbert

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 1967

Runtime: 30 mins.

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.)

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: None

Video: None

Director:
Michael Snow

Year:
1967

Runtime:
45 mins.

Starring:
Hollis Frampton
Lyne Grossman
Naoto Nakazawa
Roswell Rudd
Amy Taubin
Joyce Wieland
Amy Yadrin

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)

DVD:
None

Official Website:
None

Awards:
Grand Prize: 4th International Experimental Film Festival (Belgium) (1967)

Online Reviews:
All Movie (Tom Vick)
Raging Bull (Mike Lorefice)
Film Fanatic (unknown)
Hammer to Nail (Brandon Harris)

Print Reviews/Analysis:
The Essential Cinema: Essays on the films in the collection of Anthology Film Archives, Volume One, ed. P. Adams Sitney. (New York University Press and Anthology Film Archives, 1975) (Chapter 11: Michael Snow’s Cinema (Wavelength, <——>, The Central Region), P. Adams Sitney, pp. 219-229.)

Video:
None

Director: Carolee Schneemann

Starring: Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney, Kitch (the cat)

Year: 1967

Runtime: 18 mins.

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 Schneemann’s official site)

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: None

Video: None