Friday,
July 22 ~ Sunday, July 24
A
Tribute to Susan Sontag
 In
honor of Susan Sontag (1933—2004), International House presents
films which invoke her various passions: cinema, world travels
(Cuba, Vietnam, and Bosnia), writing (On Photography,
Regarding the Pain of Others, and Notes On Camp)
as well as her own iconic image.
Special
thanks to Jake Perlin, curator of this program at the BAMcinématek
in Brooklyn. Program notes adapted from BAMcinématek.
Friday,
July 22 at 7:00pm
The
Devil Is A Woman
dir. Josef Von Sternberg, USA, 1935, 35mm,
79 mins, b/w
A key work in Sontag’s groundbreaking
essay Notes on Camp, this was Von Sternberg’s final
film with Marlene Dietrich, and the end of a masochistic relationship
that played itself out in their films. Dietrich is an impossibly
glamorous cigarette girl whose lovers submit to being rejected
by her. “‘Camp’ is a vision of the world in terms of style—but
a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.” —Susan
Sontag
preceded
by
Six
Sontag Screen Tests
(dir.
Andy Warhol, 1964, 24 mins)
Saturday,
July 23 at 7:00pm
Close-Up
dir. Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1989, 35mm, 100 mins, color,
Persian w/ English subtitles
 Sontag
considered this film to be Kiarostami’s masterpiece, and it
falls somewhere between documentary and fiction. A manic movie
fan pretends to be film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf in this film
about the nature of art and documentary. The trial scenes are
stunning, as is the scene where the impostor meets the real
Makhmalbaf, which moved Sontag to tears.
Sunday, July
24 at 7:00pm
Cuba,
Si!
dir.
Chris Marker, Cuba/France, 1961, 16mm, 54 mins, b/w
A
selection of films in tribute to Sontag's travels to Cuba, Vietnam,
and Bosnia, her appreciation for Godard and Marker, and her
works On Photography and Regarding the Pain of
Others.
Marker
had this to say about his documentary, Cuba, Si!, "Shot
rapidly in January 1961, during the first alert period (you
know, at the time when the majority of French papers were hooting
over Fidel's paranoia in imagining himself threatened with invasion),
it aims at communicating, if not the experience, at least the
vibrations, the rhythm of a revolution that will one day perhaps
be held to be the decisive moment of a whole era of contemporary
history.”
preceded
by
In
the Darkness of Time
(dir.
Jean-Luc Godard, 2002, 10 mins)
Interviews
with My Lai Veterans
(dir.
Joseph Strick, 1971, 20 mins)
$6.00; $5.00 members,
students and seniors. Available in advance at www.ticketweb.com
or one hour before showtime at the Box Office.
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