The Ties That Bind
Su Friedrich
In The Ties That Bind, Su Friedrich analyses her mother’s memories of her youth in Germany between the 1920s and 1940s. »I have combined images of my mother from her current life in Chicago with stories of her past, partly because she is still seriously tormented by these early experiences, but also because I can’t separate who she is now from who she became as a result of war and National Socialism. But underlying this, it appears to be a conversation between the pictures I took and the sound she produced.« (Su Friedrich)
Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich has played a pivotal role in shaping lesbian independent cinema in the United States with her films. She is always interested in current media debates, which she reflects on in her films. Inherent in many of her films is an auto-ethnographic perspective. Her works are shown in exhibitions and at festivals and have already been celebrated in 23 retrospectives, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the National Film Theatre in London and the First Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Friedrich’s films are part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute Chicago, the Royal Film Archive Belgium, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, and others.
Films by Su Friedrich (Selection)
Cinetracts5/10/20 2020 | Edited by: the Companion Film, version 22019 | Edited by: the Companion Film, version 1 2018 |I cannot tell you how I feel2016 | Queen Takes Pawn2013 | Gut Renovation 2012 | Practice Makes Perfect2012 | From the Ground Up 2008 | Seeing Red 2005 | The Head of a Pin 2004
