Synopsis: Susan Sontag’s Promised Lands, her long unseen and only documentary film on the 1973 Yom Kippur War!

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General Public: $10
Students/Seniors: $9
Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends: $8

Timetable

Memories - Brian Kaufman
In this touching animation short one person tries to forestall the inevitable. 2010; 11 min. With an in-person appearance by director Brian Kaufman!

Promised Lands - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag’s Promised Lands, her long unseen and only documentary film, has been re-released and will be screened in a new digital copy.  Filming in Israel during the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Sontagscrutinizes with startling clarity and nuance the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions among Jews over the question of Palestinian sovereignty.  The film is structured as an antiphony between two sets of images. The first consists of observational sequences detailing moments from modern Israel. Intercut throughout are conversations with two intellectuals: writer Yoram Kaniuk, a supporter of Palestinian rights who sees Israel shifting from its socialist roots to an American-style commercial culture, and physicist Yuval Ne’eman, who argues that anti-Semitism in the Arabic world can only be countered with force. Stanley Kauffmann wrote that this film presents “not a struggle between truth and falsehood but between two opposing, partial truths.” 1974-2010; 87 min.