Su Friedrich Movies

A nun has sexual feelings for another woman.

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

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

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

The Head of a Pin reveals the awkward ruminations of the filmmaker and her friends as they attempt to learn about nature. Starting out as an...

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

Su Friedrich is a pioneering queer filmmaker who has been making ground-breaking personal films for decades. In Today, she again eschews conventional...

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...