Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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

Смерть : 2004-12-28

История

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.

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Susan Sontag

Фильмы

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: The Bad and the Beautiful
Self (archive footage)
Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from Catherine Deneuve to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossellini – finally give their own interpretation of the life and work of this controversial genius. A portrait by the portrayed. Provocative, unconventional, subversive, his depiction of women still sparks the question: were they subjects or objects?
Разговор о Сьюзан Зонтаг
Herself (archive footage)
Масштабный взгляд на жизнь культурного критика, одного из самых острых и парадоксальных мыслителей второй половины XX века. Здесь все — от ее личной жизни до смелых, великолепных текстов об искусстве и политике.
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Self (archive footage)
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
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.
Зелиг
Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews
Леонард Зелиг, заурядный тип, становится знаменитым после того, как обнаруживает уникальную способность физически и духовно перевоплощаться в кого угодно — от Чарли Чаплина до Адольфа Гитлера, от толстяка до китайца. И, главное дело, великий имитатор не знает пределов совершенству.
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.
Дуэт для каннибалов
Writer
Томас подряжается разобрать архив политика Артура Бауэра и составить его каталог. При личной встрече работодатель ставит молодому человеку странное условие – на время работы тот должен поселиться в его доме. Согласившись на него, Томас оказался в странной ситуации. Помимо работы с бумагами ему пришлось удовлетворять многочисленные капризы супруги Бауэра Франчески. Молодая женщина кажется не вполне здоровой душевно, но чем дольше молодой человек находится в доме этой странной пары, тем сильнее начинает подозревать, что на самом деле болен сам Бауэр. А между тем странный человек, называющий себя политиком, подключает к игре девушку Томаса Ингрид, предлагая ей место горничной…
Дуэт для каннибалов
Director
Томас подряжается разобрать архив политика Артура Бауэра и составить его каталог. При личной встрече работодатель ставит молодому человеку странное условие – на время работы тот должен поселиться в его доме. Согласившись на него, Томас оказался в странной ситуации. Помимо работы с бумагами ему пришлось удовлетворять многочисленные капризы супруги Бауэра Франчески. Молодая женщина кажется не вполне здоровой душевно, но чем дольше молодой человек находится в доме этой странной пары, тем сильнее начинает подозревать, что на самом деле болен сам Бауэр. А между тем странный человек, называющий себя политиком, подключает к игре девушку Томаса Ингрид, предлагая ей место горничной…
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.