Su Friedrich

Quick Facts

Full Name	Su Friedrich
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 12, 1954(1954-12-12)
Age	70
Birthplace	New Haven
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Su Friedrich Biography

Su Friedrich is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on December 12, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Su Friedrich was born in 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut. The mother of Su Friedrich was German and immigrated to the US along with her father, who was employed in Germany as an GI at the time. Friedrich was a student at her studies at the University of Chicago (1971-72) as well as Oberlin College (1972-1975) from where she received an B.A. from the Department of Art in addition to Art History. She is from Brooklyn, NY, and is Professor at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at Princeton University, where she has taught the production of films and videos since 1998. Her first film was, Hot Water, in 1978. Since then, she has made and directed 18 videos and films.

Friedrich’s films have received numerous awards, including for the film The Odds of Recovery, Best Documentary at the Identities Festival held in Vienna and to Hide and Seek, Best Narrative Film Award at the Athens International Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary feature at Outfest ’97, Los Angeles, Special Jury Award at the New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and Juror’s Choice Award at the Charlotte Film Festival in the category of Sink or Swim, Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival as well as The Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival Gold Juror’s Choice Award in the Charlotte Film and Video Festival The or Swim, Special Jury Award at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Best Experimental Film Award at the USA Short Film and Video Festival and For Damned If You Don’t, the Best Experimental Film Award at the Athens Film Festival and the Best Experimental Narrative Award in the Atlanta Film Festival; and for Cool Hands Warm Heart the Special Honorable Award in the Athens Film Festival. Friedrich also received an award called the Peter S. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.

In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected Sink or Swim for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Damned If You Don’t is the film about Catholicism and lesbianism, particularly the sexuality of nuns. The narrative in the film has three layers in its structure; a young woman seducing a young nun; adaptation of Powell and Pressburger’s film, Black Narcissus (1947) that is about a nun in the convent in Himalayas; reading of Judith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. By exploiting the layered narratives, Damned If You Don’t reveals a common assumption in melodrama that all desire is heterosexual, and shows a new direction of depiction of female desire, pleasure and sexuality.

Friedrich’s films frequently blend elements of narrative documentary and experimental forms of filmmaking. They often concentrate on the role of families, women and homosexuality in the present day of America. Since the beginning at the end of 1970s Friedrich has been a major filmmaker of the avant-garde and was a major force in the creation and development of Queer Cinema. Her work has radically altered film’s form and content through the incorporation of a feminist view and questions of identity for lesbians and has created a stunning and original synthesis of novel, narrative or documentary forms. Friedrich’s films are multilingual, shifting between intimate and the political and autobiographical, from films about family and relationships to the exploration of how society views sexuality. Her cinematic repertoire comprises home movies, archival footage, interviews, as well as written narratives.

Su Friedrich Net Worth

Su Friedrich is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Su Friedrich 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Su Friedrich (born December 12 in 1954) is an American avant-garde film maker from America.

It is a fascinating look at the world of hide and Seek is a look into the lesbian adolescent years of the 1960s. Lou is a twelve-year-old girl who is a daydreamer in an abandoned tree house, attempts not to watch a sexual education film, is a winner of the contest of throwing rocks and is shocked to learn how her friend has taken an interest in earrings and men. The story of Lou is interspersed with the mostly humorous, occasionally painful memories of adult lesbians trying to understand what brought them from where they were to get here. The picture is rounded out by clips from a myriad of historical educational and scientific films that are paired with black and white pictures of Lou’s life.

The films have been reviewed in numerous publications, including Variety, Premiere, The Village Voice, Artforum, The New York Times, The Nation, Film Quarterly, The Millennium Film Journal, Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Flash Art, Cineaste, The Independent, Heresies Art Journal, Afterimage, and The L.A. Weekly. Essays on her work as well as excerpts from her scripts have appeared in numerous books, including Women’s Experimental Cinema (2007), 501 Movie Directors (2007), Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream (2005), Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943–2000 (2002), Left In the Dark (2002), The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002), Girl Director: A How-To Guide (2001), Collecting Visible Evidence (1999), Experimental Ethnography (1999), The New American Cinema (1998), Play It Again, Sam (1998), Film Fatales (1998), Cinematernity (1996), Screen Writings (1994), Women’s Films (1994), Queer Looks (1993), Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (1993), Vampires and Violets (1992), and Critical Cinema: Volume Two (1992).

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Top Facts about Su Friedrich

1. Su Friedrich is an American experimental filmmaker.
2. She was born on May 14, 1954 in New York City.
3. Friedrich has directed over 20 films since the 1970s.
4. Her work often explores themes of gender and sexuality.
5. Friedrich’s film “Sink or Swim” won a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1991.
6. She has received numerous awards and grants for her work.
7. Friedrich is also a professor of film at Princeton University.
8. Her films have been screened at major festivals worldwide.
9. Friedrich’s work has been praised for its innovative use of sound and image.
10. She continues to be an influential figure in avant-garde cinema today.