Warren Sonbert's 1978 DIVIDED LOYALTIES to Screen in Luke Fowler's Film Portrait Series in Paris

Warren Sonbert’s film about art vs. industry and their various crossovers will conclude Scratch: PORTRAITS FILMED BY LUKE FOWLER, presented by Light Cone at Le Luminor Hôtel de ville, on February 14th. DIVIDED LOYALTIES will be accompanied by a sound composition Fowler created in collaboration with Richard McMaster.

WARREN SONBERT’S DIVIDED LOYALTIES (1978)

LUKE FOWLER

Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker and musician from Glasgow whose film work experiments with the conventions of biographical and documentary cinema. This selection of 16mm short films made over the past 12 years is made up of impressionist portraits of different personalities, sometimes immediately present in the artist's intimate life (his mother, his neighbors), sometimes completely absent but important to him ( disco music producer Patrick Cowley, or even Paul Cézanne). Proceeding in a fragmented and elliptical way, Fowler composes his portraits from the material traces (photographs, documents, sound recordings) that these people leave in the places they inhabit and from a sensitive study of the environment that surrounds them. His work of listening and meticulous observation thus brings back forgotten or marginalized stories from a multitude of fields such as radical pedagogy, experimental music, the history of social struggles or queer culture.

Fowler will be present at the screening.

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The Estate of Warren Sonbert has previously named GME as the custodian of the legacy of experimental filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995). Since his untimely passing, GME has worked on an extensive project to preserve, distribute and curate career retrospectives of his films on an international basis, as well as publish original documents from the paper archive of his writings, which are now housed at Harvard University.

A new, 2K digital version of DIVIDED LOYALTIES will be added to GME’s Warren Sonbert Collection in 2023.