ENTER TO WIN HERESeattle Weekly Presents: SIFF Regarding Susan SontagSunday | May

Published 7:50 pm Friday, May 9, 2014

ENTER TO WIN HERE

Seattle Weekly Presents: SIFF Regarding Susan Sontag

Sunday | May 18

3:30 pm | Harvard Exit

She paved the way for cultural criticism with her essays on society, media, and gender identity. She strove against conventional theories of war and advocated for human and equal rights. Nancy Kates’ documentary Regarding Susan Sontag takes audiences through the life, career, and passion of the famed literary icon and political activist. An opinionated essayist since age fifteen, Sontag was always eager to grow up, see the world, and meet other intellectuals. Kates’ film traces Sontag’s life from her young adulthood awakening through her literary successes with “Against Interpretation” (including her seminal “Notes on Camp”) and “The Way We Live Now” (about the AIDS crisis), all the way up to her romance with photographer Annie Leibovitz and her bold stance on 9/11. The documentary portrays Sontag as an influential and provocative writer who deconstructed ideas of femininity, embraced and analyzed gay culture, and examined important works of cinema. Kates pays respect to and uncovers secrets of the icon through exclusive interviews with close friends and writers such as Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Stephen Koch, and Fran Lebowitz. Featuring rich readings of Sontag’s work by actress Patricia Clarkson,Regarding Susan Sontag is a complex, detailed, and moving tribute to the literary and feminist pioneer.

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