Su Friedrich

I attended Su Friedrich's lecture, but was only able to catch about half of it. I'm not really much of an abstract film person, and I didn't quite understand the films she showed. They seemed very hectic and didn't seem to pertain to what she was talking about, at least to me. I'm really not one for abstract art, and films like one of the ones she showed that was just random words coming in and out really bother me. I don't know what it is about films like that but I just can't handle it; almost to the point of getting anxiety from them.

I tried looking through her website to get a better idea of what she was about but didn't get very much out of it. I don't have sound on my computer so I couldn't watch any of her clips, so I tried looking through her 4 bios. They listed a whole bunch of films she has made and awards and museums that have her work, but I didn't find too much about her actual work. A lot of it seems to be feminist? I saw a few awards that pertained to gay and lesbian awards, and to museums that had that kind of thing, but I didn't get that impression from her when I was at the lecture.

Maybe I would have gotten into it more if I had been able to stay longer for the lecture, but from the impression I got I was uninterested in her work.