Su Friedrich Movies

  • 2005
    Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

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    In Seeing Red, three elements run parallel, overlap, diverge, lock horns and in various other ways give voice to the notion that a color, a melody,...

    Seeing Red
  • 2013
    Gut Renovation

    Gut Renovation

    Gut Renovation

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    Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 years, the filmmaker was...

    Gut Renovation
  • 1981
    Gently Down the Stream

    Gently Down the Stream

    Gently Down the Stream

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    GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the...

    Gently Down the Stream
  • 2020
    The Renegades

    The Renegades

    The Renegades

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    Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own...

    The Renegades
  • 1990
    Sink or Swim

    Sink or Swim

    Sink or Swim

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    Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work...

    Sink or Swim
  • 2018
    Dykes, Camera, Action!

    Dykes, Camera, Action!

    Dykes, Camera, Action!

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    The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of...

    Dykes, Camera, Action!
  • 1996
    Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek

    5.61996HD

    Mixes documentary interviews of memories of lesbian adolescence with the story of the 12-year-old girl Lou discovering her sexuality in 1960s America.

    Hide and Seek
  • 2002
    The Odds of Recovery

    The Odds of Recovery

    The Odds of Recovery

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    After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a...

    The Odds of Recovery
  • 2020
    Cinetracts '20

    Cinetracts '20

    Cinetracts '20

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    A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

    Cinetracts '20
  • 1993
    Rules of the Road

    Rules of the Road

    Rules of the Road

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    Rules of the Road tells the story of a love affair and its demise through one of the primary objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon...

    Rules of the Road
  • 1987
    Damned If You Don't

    Damned If You Don't

    Damned If You Don't

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    A nun has sexual feelings for another woman.

    Damned If You Don't
  • 1979
    Scar Tissue

    Scar Tissue

    Scar Tissue

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    Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact that Friedrich never really shows the whole body,...

    Scar Tissue
  • 1998
    Lavender Limelight

    Lavender Limelight

    Lavender Limelight

    6.51998HD

    From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors....

    Lavender Limelight
  • 1982
    But No One

    But No One

    But No One

    4.51982HD

    A dream that was "left over" from Gently Down the Stream. Like many dreams, it transformed the familiar world into something more disturbing,...

    But No One
  • 1991
    First Comes Love

    First Comes Love

    First Comes Love

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    First Comes Love consists of perfectly choreographed scenes of four wedding ceremonies accompanied by a complex medley of popular love songs. All...

    First Comes Love
  • 2012
    Practice Makes Perfect

    Practice Makes Perfect

    Practice Makes Perfect

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    The film is primarily a portrait of Kam Kelly, who teaches West African drumming to students at various New York schools, including Intermediate...

    Practice Makes Perfect
  • 2016
    I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

    I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

    I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

    02016HD

    Su Friedrich has taken up the camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore--who played the lead in The...

    I Cannot Tell You How I Feel
  • 1984
    The Ties That Bind

    The Ties That Bind

    The Ties That Bind

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    The Ties That Bind is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mother, who was born and lived in southern Germany from 1920-1950. Through a...

    The Ties That Bind
  • 1979
    Cool Hands, Warm Heart

    Cool Hands, Warm Heart

    Cool Hands, Warm Heart

    41979HD

    The film begins with a series of events on a crowded outdoor market street. Women on stages perform "private" rituals: shaving legs and armpits,...

    Cool Hands, Warm Heart
  • 2007
    From the Ground Up

    From the Ground Up

    From the Ground Up

    02007HD

    With few words and no polemics, From the Ground Up shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with...

    From the Ground Up