Carriage Trade (1972)

Carriage Trade was an evolving workinprogress and this 61minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it preserved intact from the camera original With Carriage Trade Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s he particularly disliked the kneejerk reaction produced by Eisensteins montage In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing Sonbert described Carriage Trade as a jigsaw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects This approach according to Sonbert ultimately affords the viewer multifaceted readings of the connections between individual shots Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998