June 21, 2015
Archives for 2015
Cinema Eye Honors
Regarding Susan Sontag has been named a Finalist for the Cinema Eye Honors 2015 Nonfiction Film for Television Award.
– “When Writers Talk Among Themselves” in The New York Times, 1986
“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”
Out Fest Twin Cities
June 24, 2015
– Journal entry 1/4/58, Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963
“The city. The city as labyrinth. (No labyrinths in the country.) This, among other things, attracts me. The city is vertical. The country (+ suburbs) horizontal. I ‘set myself’ in the city… The sky, as seen in the city, is negative—where the buildings are not.”
Moscow Jewish Film Festival
June 13-15, 2015
– “Notes on ‘Camp’,” 1964
“Camp involves a new, more complex relation to ‘the serious.’ One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”
– Journal entry 11/4/64, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals & Notebooks 1964-1980
“One criticizes in others what one recognizes + despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.”
BERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION
June 2, 2015
FOCAL International Award
Regarding Susan Sontag has won a FOCAL International Award for best use of archival footage in an arts program! FOCAL is the professional organization for archival footage houses and researchers. Pictured is director Nancy Kates with the representative from Bridgeman, the award sponsor, in London at the awards ceremony.