Screen Test Susan Sontag (1964)

Susan Sontag was one of the many subjects of Warhols Screen Tests a silentfilm portrait series capturing wellknown cultural figures of the 1960s Warhol filmed seven Screen Tests of the journalist and author Sontag in his Factorya space of collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic production Of the Sontag films ST318 is perhaps the most direct and severe The intricacies of Sontags facial features are heightened by the films slowmotion progression stretched out to four minutes and thirty seconds