SF Texts, Art Projects, and Film Tech

Two photographs in Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1977

“Mea Culpa” in Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, Patterns of Communication and Space Among Women, vol. 1, no. 2, May 1977

“The 7,000 Year Old Woman” by Betsy Damon with photographs by Su Friedrich in Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics: Lesbian Art and Artists, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 1977

“Sitney on Cornell” in The Downtown Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall-Winter 1979/80

“Letters: On Margareta von Trotta’s ‘The Second Awakening of Christa Klages’” in The Downtown Review, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall-Winter 1979/80, pp. 42-43

“Bette Gordon’s ‘Empty Suitcases’” in The Downtown Review, vol. 2, no. 3, Fall 1980, pp. 16-17

“THE DILEMMA OF THE ONE WHO WANTS BOTH AND NEITHER But Who Would Prefer To Get On With Her Work Instead of Being Preoccupied With Whether Anyone Will ever make love to her right” in Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, #12, The Sex Issue, vol 3, no. 4, 1981

“Jennifer, Where Are You?” in The Downtown Review, vol. 3, nos. 1 and 2, Fall-Winter-Spring, 1981-82, pp. 8-10
It was reprinted in Leslie Thornton, edited by Natalie Bell, Dan Kidner and Milan Ther, MIT/Sternberg Press, 2022

“Su Friedrich to Leslie Thornton, Leslie Thornton to Su Friedrich” in Idiolects #13: Letters, edited by Marjorie Keller and Mary Filippo, May 1983

“Gently Down the Stream” script and images in Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics: Film Video, vol. 4, no. 4, issue 16, 1983

“The Ties That Bind” in Alles und Noch Viel Mehr (Kunstmuseum Bern) 1985

“Does Radical Content Deserve Radical Form?” in Millennium Film Journal, no. 22, Winter/Spring 1989-90, pp. 118-123

Letter from me to my father about “Sink or Swim”, ca. 1990

“Dear Margie” in a special section, “Friends and Colleagues Remembering Marjorie Keller” in Millennium Film Journal #28, Spring 1995

“Script for a Film Without Images,” originally printed in Feminism/Film #1, 1984, reprinted in Screenwritings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers by Scott MacDonald, University of California Press, 1995. The PDF also has the scripts for “Gently Down the Stream” and “Sink or Swim.”

“It Takes Two, Baby”, Millennium Film Journal, February 2003

A Statement of Purpose–written at some time that I don’t remember, a long time ago…

“Film Buffs are Film Buffs No Matter Whom They Sleep With”, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, ed. by Ann Cvetkovich and Annamarie Jagose, Duke University Press, vol. 14, no. 1, 2008

“Seeing (through) Red” in Truth In Nonfiction, ed. by David Lazar, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2008, pp. 152-162

“Experimental Documentary Questionnaire” in Millennium Film Journal #51, fall 2009

re:working – A one-person show of film elements and photographs at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, May 14-June 6, 2011.

“One Lake and Two Kerfuffles” in Flash Flaherty: Tales From a Film Seminar by Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmerman, Indiana University Press, 2020

“Edited By”— A website featuring 206 women editors through text, photographs, posters from sample works, an extensive appendix, and a feature length film, “Edited By: The Companion Film”, which can be downloaded from the site. Created in 2018-19. See this page for further info.

“William Greaves”—The official, comprehensive website about the filmmaker featuring 18 of his films and all known articles, reviews and interviews. Created in 2020.

“Reclaiming Lost Film Histories, with Su Friedrich and Scott MacDonald”, a discussion via zoom about the websites Edited By and William Greaves. Hosted by the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, April 1, 2022

“The Collaborative Editor: Mary Stephen in Conversation with Su Friedrich” on MUBI Notebook, December 2021

“Without Itinerary: Four Months in West Africa”—a photography exhibit at CoLab Space, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, March 29-April 3, 2022.

THINGS ABOUT FILM TECH

AND THE BONUS ITEM

I hesitated about putting this in because now there’s no need to invite me to your class or film venue to do this in person, but here you go…

How to Drag Your Private Life, Kicking and Screaming, Into the Public: Looking Back at Forty-One Years of Filmmaking – a lecture at the Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, October 22, 2019, in which I talk about almost all my films–first with a brief explanation about what went into the making of it, followed by a 5 minute clip from the film.