Su Friedrich Movies

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

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

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...

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

It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif...

An insider's look at the first year of an activist group known as the Lesbian Avengers.

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

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

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

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

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...

A journey through an old house by way of a mirror, a child’s storybook, and some images from days gone by. Or a journey through some old images...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Jerusalema: From Austria to Zimbabwe is a loving look back at a viral phenomenon that burst out during the Covid pandemic: The Jerusalema Dance...

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