“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader’s own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement — not incitement.”
Archives for 2014
Advocate Names 10 Best LGBT Documentaries of 2014
Regarding Susan Sontag is honored to be #2 on The Advocate’s list of the 10 best LGBT documentaries of 2014. http://www.advocate.com/year-review/2014/12/24/10-best-lgbt-documentaries-2014?page=0%2C1
Regarding Susan Sontag Soundrack Released on iTunes
The outstanding Regarding Susan Sontag soundtrack by Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum is now available on Itunes. The CD release is scheduled for early 2015. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/regarding-susan-sontag-original/id951204637
San Francisco Chronicle – Best Documentaries of 2014
Regarding Susan Sontag has been named one of the Best Documentaries of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle!
– Journal entry, 2/13/50, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong + fruitful.”
VIDEO – Director Nancy Kates and Stephen Koch Interviewed for Huffington Post
Thanks to The Huffington Post for this great video interview with director Nancy Kates and Stephen Koch. http://on.aol.com/video/regarding-susan-sontag-518547296
– On Photography, 1977
“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more—and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.”
– Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
Kinok – Cinema in der Lokremise
Dec 10-23, 2014
An Amazing Festival Run
Regarding Susan Sontag has been having an amazing festival run, having now screened in 29 countries since April, with recent screenings at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Seattle LGBT Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and IDFA (the International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, the world’s largest documentary film festival), among others. IDFA director Ally…