Gut Renovation
Su Friedrich
In the late 1980s, various artists moved into the New York working-class neighbourhood of Williamsburg which, at the time, was still populated by small manufacturers, Polish butchers, and auto repair shops etc. If SoHo took 30 years to evolve from an artists’ bohemia to an art gallery hotspot, to an outdoor shopping mall, Williamsburg’s demise was much faster – due in part to a 2005 zoning law change.
With a jaundiced eye and a combination of wit, anger and political savvy, film-maker Su Friedrich records how the neighbourhood has changed from when she arrived in the 1980s to the rich-hipster haven it has now become: she hovers on the sleek granite kitchen counters featured at the condo openings she attends; she paints ironic graffiti on construction fences; she comments wryly on her new neighbours; she captures each demolition on film.
Awards for ›Gut Renovation‹
Audience Award, Brooklyn International Film Festival 2012
Film programme A Better Life
Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich hat das lesbische US-amerikanische Independent-Kino mit ihren Filmen entscheidend geprägt. Dabei sind es immer auch die Bedingungen aktueller medialer Diskurse, die sie interessieren und die sie mit ihren Filmen reflektiert. Eine auto-ethnographische Perspektive ist vielen ihrer Filme eigen. Ihre Arbeiten werden in Ausstellungen und auf Festivals gezeigt und in bereits 23 Retrospektiven gewürdigt, darunter vom Museum of Modern Art, dem Whitney Museum of American Art, dem Rotterdam Film Festival, dem National Film Theatre in London und dem First Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Friedrichs Filme sind Teil der Sammlung unter anderem des Museum of Modern Art, des Art Institute Chicago, des Royal Film Archive Belgien, des Centre Pompidou in Paris und des nationalen Filmregisters der Library of Congress.
Filme von Su Friedrich (Auswahl)
Cinetracts5/10/20 2020 | Edited by: the Companion Film, version 2 2019 | Edited by: the Companion Film, version 1 2018 | I cannot tell you how I feel 2016 | Queen Takes Pawn 2013 | Gut Renovation 2012 | Practice Makes Perfect 2012 | From the Ground Up 2008 | Seeing Red 2005 | The Head of a Pin 2004
