February 28, 2024

In Person

SU FRIEDRICH is an American avant-garde film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She has been a leading figure in avant-garde filmmaking and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema. Su has made twenty-four films and videos which range in length from 2 to 113 minutes. The films have been featured in twenty-six retrospectives at museums and film festivals and have been widely screened, extensively written about, are in many university and museum collections, and have won numerous grants and awards.

In 2015, Sink or Swim was one of the 25 films chosen by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Film Registry. Her DVD collection is distributed by Outcast Films and her two most recent films are distributed by Icarus Films. She has taught at The New School and NYU, and since 1998, Friedrich has been Professor of Visual Art in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.