I Cannot Tell You How I Feel
Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich takes up her camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her sprightly though sometimes erratic 94-year-old mother Lore – already the main character in The Ties That Bind in 1984 – plays the lead once again, this time kicking and protesting against being moved out of her Chicago home to a facility for »independent living« in New York. Su Friedrich and her two siblings take on the supporting roles – cajoling and comforting their mother, until they eventually reach the end of their tether. Being confronted with the process of growing old is not something the 60-year-old director finds easy. Balancing out concern, a sense of responsibility and comic elements, she nevertheless succeeds in delivering a complex, humorous montage of events and a tender commentary on one of today’s biggest taboos.
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
