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Susan Sontag (1933–2004)

Born in New York City, raised in Arizona and California, educated at the University of Chicago, Harvard, Oxford and the Sorbonne, Susan Sontag constitutes a veritable challenge for any biographer. A novelist, philosopher, essayist, movie director and playwright, over the past thirty years she has been a controversial figure... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideDirector (4 titles)
1974 Promised Lands (documentary)
 
1971 Brother Carl
 
Show ShowWriter (4 titles)
1983 Letter from Venice (writer)
 
1974 Promised Lands (documentary)
 
1971 Brother Carl
 
1969 Duet for Cannibals (writer)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2006 Absolute Wilson (documentary) (dedicatee)
 
2006 Din of Celestial Birds (short) (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (20 titles)
2006 Absolute Wilson (documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Alexandria (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 11 November 2003 (2003) … Herself
 
2003 Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (TV series documentary)
Herself
Les médias et l'histoire (2003) … Herself
 
2002 Negro sobre blanco (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 8 December 2002 (2002) … Herself
 
1991 Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1989 Everyman (TV series documentary)
Herself
Just an Illness (1989) … Herself
 
1989 The Poet Remembers (TV movie)
Herself
 
1988 Sarah (TV documentary short)
Herself (voice)
 
1987 Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas (documentary)
Herself
 
1984 Àngel Casas show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.24 (1984) … Herself
 
1984 Improper Conduct (documentary)
Herself
 
1983 Zelig
Herself - Contemporary Interviews
 
1979 Town Bloody Hall (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1972 Vive le cinéma (TV series documentary)
Herself
Episode dated 15 October 1972 (1972) … Herself
 
1966 Galaxie
Herself
 
1966 Screen Test #4 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1966 Screen Test #3 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1965 Monitor (TV series documentary)
Herself / Herself - Interviewee
Cheese! Or What Really Did Happen in Andy Warhol's Studio (1965) … Herself - Interviewee
Always on Sunday (1965) … Herself
 
1965 Screen Test #1 (short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2006-2008 Imagine (TV series)
 
2006 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1966) Book: "Against Interpretation" See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Print Biographies  | 4 Interviews  | 27 Articles  | See more »

Official Sites:

Official Site | See more »
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

One of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there See more »

Trivia:

She became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia. See more »

Star Sign:

Aquarius