THE CUP AND THE LIP (US, 1986, Warren Sonbert)

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THE CUP AND THE LIP is a complex and challenging picture that will stimulate adventurous filmmakers for years to come. ... Although its imagery is too dense, varied and fast-moving to be thoroughly parsed after one viewing, the film appears to be a regretful and perhaps sardonic essay on human frailty — and on the effort to stave off chaos by means of political and religious institutions, which carry their own dangers of social control and mental manipulation. —David Steritt, Christian Science Monitor

STILL: THE CUP AND THE LIP (1986). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.

Warren Sonbert’s THE CUP AND THE LIP screened in the 1987 Whitney Biennalie, where it was described as “continu[ing] his series of cinematic diaries, composed of sequences and shots recorded during his travels. One of his most striking color films, THE CUP AND THE LIP portrays people at ease as private individuals and at attention as representatives of state. Although personal in tone, it is a political text with mediates on the nature of authority.”

Sonbert’s most recent film refines the premises of his work over the past 15-odd years. His bravura-acrobatic camera and editing style of the ‘70s pale next to the seemingly effortless spectacle he produces today... The film is so dense it’s impossible to apprehend it at a single viewing… It is Sonbert’s darkest work. —Amy Taubin, Village Voice

STILL: THE CUP AND THE LIP (1986). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.

THE CUP AND THE LIP
(US, 1986)

Director: Warren Sonbert

  • 20 minutes
  • 16mm
  • Color
  • Silent
Distribution Format/s: DSL/Downloadable 1080p .mp4 file on server

Published By: GME

Institutional Price: $250

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