TRANSLATION AS A SYSTEM OF LITERARY CIRCULATION
Conference for the Susan Sontag Award

Films that Proa will proyected in the cinema cycle in days and time to be confirmed:

Duet for Cannibals (1969)
Duración: 105 minutos

Duet for Cannibals is a story about psychological, sexual and emotional canibalism. The film tells a tale of two couples involved in academia and politics. Artur Bauer is a university professor living in exile in Sweden with his enigmatic wife Francesca. He hires young Tomas, ostensibly to help arrange his papers for publication. After leaving his mistress to live with the couple and take the position, Tomas quickly discovers that things are not quite right with the dysfunctional pair. The late New York Times critic Vincent Canby described Duet as “intriguing, surprising, witty and sinister to the end.”

Brother Carl (1971)
Duración: 97 minutos

Brother Carl  is about human relations: it features an odd quartet of characters whose efforts to communicate are thwarted by blatantly self-destructive impulses. Two women, Karen and Lena, visit a Swedish island resort where Lena’s ex-husband Martin lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed dancer named Carl. Martin has become Carl’s caretaker as well as his nemesis, since Carl seems to blame him for his crackup. Lena is a vibrant young woman who selflessly offers her life first to the brooding Karen, then Martin, and finally to Carl.

Promised Lands (1974)
Duración: 87 minutos

Promised Lands, Susan Sontag’s third film, was shot in Israel during the final days and the immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In this photographic essay, Sontag meditates on the current (1974) situation of the country and its people as well as her feelings about Israel and its future. Despite its personal nature, the film is largely understood as a documentary.

Unguided Tour (1983)
Duración: 71 minutos

Unguided Tour, Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film, was based on her short story of the same title. Also known as “Letter from Venice,” the film features Lucinda Childs and Claudio Cassinelli and tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as they tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

•    THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5TH

15 a 15:15 hs
Opening

15:15 a 17:30 hs
Round Table: Can Juan José Saer be translated?
Speakers: Roanne Sharp, Miguel Dalmaroni, Alberto Díaz, María Teresa Gramuglio, David Oubiña.
Coordinator: Raquel Garzón

17:30 a 18 hs
Break – coffee

18:00 a 19:20hs
Screening: Portrait of Juan José Saer (80´/Argentina/1996).
Script and Direction: Rafael Filippelli.

•    FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6TH

15 a 17 hs
Round Table: Translation as a connection: a look at the state of translation between Spanish and English
Speakers: David Rieff, Gabriela Adamo, Marietta Gargatagli, Anna Kazumi Stahl
Coordinator: Ezequiel Martínez

17 a 17:30hs
Break – coffee

17:30 a 19:00hs
Round Table: About Susan Sontag
Speakers:  Anne Jump, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Graciela Speranza
Coordinator: Verónica Chiaravalli

19:00hs
Award Presentation