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With textured imagery, an evocative sound track and stories from
friends, family and lovers,
Regarding Susan Sontag explores the life of
one of the most important writers and thinkers of our time. There are
few things in life that are sexier than a woman who is both beautiful
and smart. Sontag’s activism and groundbreaking essays put her in the
spotlight. She protested McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, and in the 1990s
she went to Sarajevo. Her books about war, photography, “camp”, illness,
human rights, and 9/11 made her an intellectual celebrity. But Nancy
Kates’ riveting and intimate portrait goes beyond the celebrity. It
examines Sontag’s work, her marriage and relationships with women, her
Jewish and queer identity and her love of life. Actress Patricia Clarkson masterfully reads excerpts from Sontag’s
essays and personal diaries. We learn that books were Sontag’s
“household deities,” her “spaceships.” Becoming a writer was like
“enlisting in an army of saints.” In “Notes on Camp,” Sontag writes,
“The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral
seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.” A mouthful, but a
delicious one. Ultimately, this is a film about a woman who lived life
with a passionate vehemence. It makes us feel the pulse of that life and
reminds us to embrace our own.
Co-sponsored by Britex Fabrics and by Fern Tiger and Michael Pyatok
Director Nancy Kates in person
Castro screening followed by a post film discussion at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav.