Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Nascimento : 1933-01-16, New York, New York

Morte : 2004-12-28

História

Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, literary and cultural theorist, icon, and political activist whose works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, The Way We Live Now, and Regarding the Pain of Others.

Perfil

Susan Sontag

Filmes

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
Woman Talking
A Woman Watches People.
Symphony Of The Invisible
Herself (voice)
"Symphony of the Invisible" is a reflection on creation and how through art, poetry and images you can break the limits that have been imposed on language and life itself.
Helmut Newton - Perversão e Beleza
Self (archive footage)
Um documentário sobre a controversa carreira de Helmut Newton, fotógrafo pioneiro que teve impacto decisivo nos mundos da moda e da arte.
Sobre Susan Sontag
Herself (archive footage)
Documentário sobre Susan Sontag (1933-2004), umas das escritoras americanas mais influentes de sua geração. Ícone literário, político e feminista, manteve seu olhar sobre assuntos como os direitos humandos, a arte, a doença e a guerra.
Annie Leibovitz: A Vida Através das Lentes
Self (archive footage)
Annie Leibovitz nasceu em 1949 e é um dos mais famosos nomes no ramo da fotografia das três últimas décadas. A fotógrafa possui um trabalho variado: retrata o glamour e a riqueza em revistas de moda e comportamento ao mesmo tempo em que capta os horrores praticados nos combates militares. O documentário traz para o cinema um acompanhamento do processo de sua criação artística, como o momento no set de filmagem de “Maria Antonieta”, as experiências da carreira, sua relação com a fama e a vida em família.
The Great Magician
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag.
Waiting For Godot... In Sarajevo
Director
A documentary about Susan Sontag staging Waiting For Godot in Bosnia.
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Herself
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.
A Primer for Pina
Director
Television essay on the work of choreographer Pina Bausch, presented by Susan Sontag.
A Primer for Pina
Television essay on the work of choreographer Pina Bausch, presented by Susan Sontag.
Improper Conduct
Self - Writer
The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution (1953-59) until the early 1980s. Interviews with relevant personalities of Cuban culture who suffered persecution demonstrate that concentration camps for gays existed in Cuba.
Zelig
Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews
Um pseudo-documentário sobre a vida de Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen), o homem-camaleão, que tinha o dom de modificar a aparência para agradar as outras pessoas.
Unguided Tour
Writer
Also known as “Letter from Venice,” Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice.
Unguided Tour
Director
Also known as “Letter from Venice,” Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice.
Town Bloody Hall
Herself (uncredited)
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
Promised Lands
Writer
Susan Sontag scrutinizes the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions within Jewish thought over the question of Palestinian sovereignty. Shot in Israel during the final days of the Yom Kippur War. Promised Lands is less straight documentary than visual collage. There are images of combat zones and soldiers, but also everyday street life, desert landscapes, funerals, supermarkets, the Wailing Wall. The soundtrack is snatches of radio, bursts of church bells and gunfire, and an extended voiceover from two politically opposed Israeli thinkers.
Promised Lands
Susan Sontag scrutinizes the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions within Jewish thought over the question of Palestinian sovereignty. Shot in Israel during the final days of the Yom Kippur War. Promised Lands is less straight documentary than visual collage. There are images of combat zones and soldiers, but also everyday street life, desert landscapes, funerals, supermarkets, the Wailing Wall. The soundtrack is snatches of radio, bursts of church bells and gunfire, and an extended voiceover from two politically opposed Israeli thinkers.
Promised Lands
Director
Susan Sontag scrutinizes the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions within Jewish thought over the question of Palestinian sovereignty. Shot in Israel during the final days of the Yom Kippur War. Promised Lands is less straight documentary than visual collage. There are images of combat zones and soldiers, but also everyday street life, desert landscapes, funerals, supermarkets, the Wailing Wall. The soundtrack is snatches of radio, bursts of church bells and gunfire, and an extended voiceover from two politically opposed Israeli thinkers.
Brother Carl
Writer
Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed ballet dancer named Carl. Carl is brother by guilt rather than blood, for Martin is somehow responsible for his breakdown.
Brother Carl
Director
Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed ballet dancer named Carl. Carl is brother by guilt rather than blood, for Martin is somehow responsible for his breakdown.
Duet for Cannibals
Writer
Arthur, a university professor, and former political activist, lives in France with Francesca. They decide to hire a young man in order to help the teacher organize his notes. The employee leaves his girlfriend Ingrid and moves in with the couple.
Duet for Cannibals
Director
Arthur, a university professor, and former political activist, lives in France with Francesca. They decide to hire a young man in order to help the teacher organize his notes. The employee leaves his girlfriend Ingrid and moves in with the couple.
Galaxie
Herself
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests.
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.