Su Friedrich

Biography

Su Friedrich has directed twenty-four films and videos since 1978, which have been featured in eighteen retrospectives at major museums and film festivals, including one at the Museum of Modern Art in 2007. The films have been widely screened at film festivals, universities and art centers, have been extensively written about, and have won numerous awards, including Grand Prix for Sink or Swim at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Her DVD collection is distributed by Outcast Films. She teaches video production at Princeton University.

Directed

1. Sink or Swim (1990) — Director
2. Gently Down the Stream (1981) — Director
3. Hide and Seek (1996) — Director
4. Damned If You Don't (1987) — Director
5. Cool Hands, Warm Heart (1979) — Director
6. But No One (1982) — Director
7. Seeing Red (2005) — Director
8. The Ties That Bind (1984) — Director
9. Gut Renovation (2013) — Director
10. Rules of the Road (1993) — Director
11. First Comes Love (1991) — Director
12. Scar Tissue (1979) — Director
13. Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too (1993) — Director
14. Cinetracts '20 (2020) — Director
15. Queen Takes Pawn (2013) — Director
16. The Odds of Recovery (2002) — Director
17. The Head of a Pin (2004) — Director
18. I Cannot Tell You How I Feel (2016) — Director
19. From A to Z: Jerusalema in 44 countries (2024) — Director
20. Today (2022) — Director
21. Practice Makes Perfect (2012) — Director
22. From the Ground Up (2007) — Director
23. Jerusalema: From Austria to Zimbabwe (2024) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Seeing Red (2005)
2. Lavender Limelight (1998) — Self
3. Dykes, Camera, Action! (2018) — Self
4. The Odds of Recovery (2002) — Self
5. I Cannot Tell You How I Feel (2016) — Self
6. The Renegades (2020)