Su
Friedrich
Video | Film Production
Professor in the Center for the
Creative and Performing Arts
Campus Address:
185 Nassau Street, Room 315
Campus Phone: (609) 258-6922
Office Hours: Spring semester
> sufried@princeton.edu
Su Friedrich has produced
and directed fourteen 16mm films and videos, including Seeing Red
(2006), The Head of a Pin (2004), The Odds of Recovery (2002),
Hide and Seek (1996), Rules of the Road (1993), First Comes Love
(1991), Sink or Swim (1990), Damned If You Don't (1987), The Ties
That Bind (1984), Gently Down the Stream (1981), and Cool Hands,
Warm Heart (1979). With the exception of Hide and Seek, Friedrich
is the writer, director, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor
of all her films.
Friedrich's films have
won many awards, including BEST NARRATIVE FILM AWARD at
the Athens International Film Festival, OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE at Outfest '97 in Los Angeles, SPECIAL JURY AWARD at
the New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, GRAND PRIX at the
Melbourne Film Festival, the GOLDEN GATE AWARD at the San Francisco
Film Festival, BEST EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE AWARD at the Atlanta
Film Festival.
Her work is widely screened in the
United States, Canada and Europe and has been the subject of retrospectives
at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Stadtkino in Vienna,
the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, the National Film Theater
in London, the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Wellington
Film Festival in New Zealand, and the Anthology Film Archives in
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Friedrich
is the recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts (1996),
an Independent Television Service production grant (1994), an
NEA Fellowship (1994), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1990),
a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1989), a DAAD grant as artist-in-residence
in Berlin (1984), as well as multiple grants from the New York
State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts
and the Jerome Foundation
Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute
of Chicago, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, the Centre Pompidou in Paris,
the National Library of Australia, as well as many university libraries. The
films are distributed by The Museum of Modern Art, Women Make Movies, Canyon
Cinema, Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Center in Toronto, the London Filmmaker's
Coop, and others.
The films have been reviewed in
numerous publications, including Premiere, The Village Voice,
Artforum, The New York Times, Variety, The Nation, Film Quarterly,
The Millennium Film Journal, Sight and Sound, Flash Art, Cineaste,
The Independent, Heresies Art Journal, Afterimage, and The L.A.
Weekly. Essays on her work, as well as excerpts from her scripts,
have appeared in numerous books, including Collecting Visible
Evidence (1999), Experimental Ethnography (1999), The New American
Cinema (1998), Play It Again, Sam (1998), Film Fatales (1998),
Cinematernity (1996), Screen Writings (1994), Women's Films (1994),
Queer Looks (1993), Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (1993),
Vampires and Violets (1992), and Critical Cinema: Volume Two
(1992).
links
> www.sufriedrich.com
> www.outcast-films.com
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