Word: avante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avant-grade director said editing is crucial to determining the impact of images...
Sonbert, a leading U.S. avant-garde director, said his theory of montage is based on "positing" one connotation of an image, "and then, as the work unravels, you take that away." In his film Honor and Obey, for example, police officers are first presented in violent roles, but in later scenes have peaceful conversations...
Sonbert appeared at the screening of four of his films as part of "Avant-Garde Voices." a two-night series sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive. Last night's screening featured two recent films, Honor and Obey...
Warren Sonbert is considered to be one of the most prominent avant-grade film directors in the United States. and will present a series of his recent works this afternoon at the Carpenter Center. Sonbert, whose works have recently been shwn at the New York Film Festival and at the Anthology Film Archive, will discuss his works after the showing...
...Opera was born. But in fact the whole place nearly died during the 1950s. Its revival in recent years has depended heavily on presentations of theater and dance, along with stagings of operas by contemporary composers like Philip Glass and John Adams, in its annual Next Wave Festival of avant-garde work. But BAM is now convinced (perhaps by the conventionality of many productions at the Met and even at the New York City Opera) that there are further new ways to be tried...