Carriage Trade

Carriage Trade (1972)

Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute 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 1920’s; he particularly disliked the “knee-jerk’ reaction produced by Eisenstein’s montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described Carriage Trade as “a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.” This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between individual shots. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.

Date of release
1972-11-29
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 1m
Director
Warren Sonbert

Casting

Interesting facts

Carriage Trade is a 1971 American experimental film directed by Warren Sonbert.

Production

Carriage Trade was filmed over the course of six years as Sonbert brought a Bolex 16 mm camera with him on international trips. According to his program notes, the filming locations were Afghanistan, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Morocco, Nepal, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Early titles for the film were The Tuxedo Theatre, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Tonight and Every Night.

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