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Su Friedrich

US
2022
Documentary
57’
OFe
desired! – film lust and queer

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: This film will only be available in Germany.

Su Friedrich has collected everyday observations over a period of several years here: life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of New York, community festivals, the loss of loved ones, protests in public spaces. A collection of audio-visual moments, often up-close and personal. In one sequence, a band plays in downtown Dortmund, where Friedrich was invited to present a film at IFFF Dortmund+Köln. The detailed shots and moments are set against broader contexts – the Trump administration, the outbreak of the pandemic – which repeatedly filter through but without dominating. Time gathers pace and is then stretched out in Friedrich’s film. As the person behind the camera, she herself is the frame of reference for the audience. How does observation work via the camera? What becomes visible and what is relevant? What is brought into view over a period of several years? Friedrich makes her own perspective the centre of this, commenting via words within the image, not just with her voice. She arranges the images of everyday life into a symphony that embraces the plea to live in the moment. The result is a beautiful collage that represents a selection and an exercise in equivalence. Grief, activism, living together are lined up and file past.

Director / Script / Cinematography / Editing / Sound

Su Friedrich

Collaboration Script / Consulting Montage

Cathy Quinlan

With

Peggy Ahwesh, Johnnie Louise Cox, Jezebel Express, Pamela Frank, Lore Friedrich, Paul Friedrich, Michael Gundlach, Tenasia Hatch, Glady Knight, Cathy Quinlan, Tre Robinson, Georgene Simmons, Mavis Staples, Larry Stewart, Christian Tetzlaff, Diane Torr, Giancarlo Vulcano, Denise E. Williams

Contact

Icarus Films

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