Lecture Series Art & the Moving Image
Su Friedrich: How to Drag Your
Private Life, Kicking and Screaming, Into the Public: Looking Back at Forty-One Years of Filmmaking
Lecture Series “Art & the Moving Image”
Department
of Media Theory, Univ.Prof. Dr. Gabriele Jutz
Su Friedrich will present a “clip talk” that surveys many of
her twenty-three films, including Gently Down the Stream (1981), Sink or Swim (1990), Hide and Seek (1996), and her most recent
works. For each work, she will give a brief summary of the motivations, ideas, and formal concerns involved in making the
film and then show a three-to-five minute excerpt.
Su Friedrich’s films have roots in the American
avant-garde cinema and in the feminist reassessment of modern society. Her films and videos have been featured in twenty-one
retrospectives at major museums and film festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Anthology
Film Archives and the National Film Theater in London. They have been widely screened at film festivals, universities and
art centers, have been extensively written about, and have won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix for Sink or Swim
from the Melbourne International Film Festival. Her DVD collection is distributed by Outcast Films. She teaches video production
at Princeton University.
