Susan Sontag
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 16, 1933
Deathday: December 28, 2004
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Le Bel Âge
1960-02-10
Le Bel Âge
Overview: Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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Galaxie
1966-09-03
Galaxie
Overview: 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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-03
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The Illegal Film
2019-04-11
The Illegal Film
Overview: Since time immemorial, we have used images to form a picture of the world. But never before has there been as much filming and photography as there is currently. But how do people deal with it when the world and its image merge? The filmmakers Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer show how quickly and profoundly the way we deal with images is changing. Will we eventually move into a world in which reality and image can no longer be distinguished from each other?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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Zelig
1983-07-15
Zelig
Overview: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-15
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Promised Lands
1974-07-11
Promised Lands
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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365 Day Project
2007-12-31
365 Day Project
Overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Regarding Susan Sontag
2014-04-20
Regarding Susan Sontag
Overview: An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-20
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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991-11-29
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-29
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The Great Magician
2006-09-14
The Great Magician
Overview: "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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Improper Conduct
1984-03-21
Improper Conduct
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-21
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965-11-28
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007-05-19
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-19
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A Primer for Pina
1984-04-04
A Primer for Pina
Overview: Television essay on the work of choreographer Pina Bausch, presented by Susan Sontag.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-04
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Town Bloody Hall
1979-04-03
Town Bloody Hall
Overview: Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-03
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Symphony Of The Invisible
2020-11-17
Symphony Of The Invisible
Overview: "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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-17
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
2020-08-02
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Overview: 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?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-02
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150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
2021-03-03
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
Overview: A Woman Watches People.
Genres: Drama Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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