Introduction -- Chronology -- Filmography -- Su Friedrich to Leslie Thornton, Leslie Thornton to Su Friedrich / Su Friedrich and Leslie Thornton -- Interviews with New York filmmakers: Su Friedrich / Stephanie Beroes -- Su Friedrich / Scott MacDonald -- Does radical content deserve radical form / Su Friedrich -- Girls out of uniform: Su Friedrich remembers being twelve years old and gay / Lydia Marcus -- Framing lesbian angst: filmmaker Su Friedrich / Erin Blackwell -- Film buffs are film buffs no matter whom they sleep with / Su Friedrich -- Su Friedrich's cinema / Cecilia Muhlstein -- Su Friedrich / Katy Martin -- It's alright, Williamsburg (I'm only bleeding) / Cynthia Lugo -- Q&A with filmmaker Su Friedrich / Carlos J. Segura -- Su Friedrich / Claudia Steinberg -- Su Friedrich returns / Adam Schartoff -- Su Friedrich in the swamp of images / Giovanni Marchini Camia -- Interview for Dykes, Camera, Action! / Caroline Berler -- A conversation with Su Friedrich / Erin Trahan -- Personal and collective memory in Su Friedrich's films / Allison Ross -- Editors' interview / Sonia Mistra and Rox Samer -- Additional resources.
Summary:
"Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker-labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and again she is, quite simply, a filmmaker. Nevertheless, the influences of the experimental film culture and of the feminist and lesbian political ethos out of which she emerged resonate across her films to the present day. Su Friedrich: Interviews is the first volume dedicated exclusively to Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich's films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity. The volume contains fifteen interviews-two previously unpublished-along with three autobiographical writings by Friedrich. Included are canonical early interviews, but a special focus is given to interviews that address her less-studied film production in the twenty-first century. Echoing across these various pieces is Friedrich's charmingly sardonic and defiant personality, familiar from her films. Her occasional resistance to an interviewer's line of questioning opens up other, unexpected lines of inquiry as it also provides insight into her distinct philosophy. The volume closes with a new interview conducted by the editors which illuminates areas that remain latent or underdiscussed in other interviews, including Friedrich's work as a film professor and projects that supplement Friedrich's filmmaking, such as Edited By, an online historical resource dedicated to collecting information about and honoring the contributions of women film editors"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.