{"id":9413,"date":"2023-09-07T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:59:36","slug":"su-friedrich-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2023\/09\/07\/su-friedrich-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Su Friedrich: TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 7, 8:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Su Friedrich, TODAY, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cChallenges us to look at what\u2019s right in front of us.\u201d \u2013 Rhea Nayyar,\u00a0Hyperallergic<\/em><\/p>\n

For nearly a half-century, Su Friedrich has played a pivotal role in American queer cinema and autobiographical film with her rich and often unflinching explorations of family, kinship, and society. Join us for two screenings featuring three landmark films, including\u00a0SINK OR SWIM\u00a0(1990),\u00a0RULES OF THE ROAD\u00a0(1993) (both screening on Thursday, September 7, 6:00 p.m.), and\u00a0TODAY\u00a0(2022).<\/p>\n

Friedrich\u2019s latest feature,\u00a0TODAY, is a luminous personal essay on beauty, love, and loss. Endeavoring to live by and also question the maxim to \u201clive in the moment,\u201d Friedrich turns her camera to the world immediately in front of her: a neighborhood barbeque, a bucolic vacation, the brilliance of flowers\u2014both natural and artificial\u2014and the consecutive losses of loved ones. Hoping to ground herself in the everyday, the filmmaker finds herself increasingly contemplative, as memories and devastating experiences make claim to her limited time.<\/p>\n

2022, USA, 57 minutes
\nIn English, Format: Digital<\/p>\n

About the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Su Friedrich\u00a0has produced 23 films and videos since 1978. She is the recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations, a Herb Alpert Award, as well as numerous grants from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Independent Television Service. Her work is widely screened in the United States, Canada, and Europe and has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Rotterdam International Film Festival; the London LGBTIQ+\u00a0Film Festival; the Stadtkino,Vienna; The Cinematheque, Vancouver; the National Film Theater, London; the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema; the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival; the first Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; the Cork International Film Festival; the Wellington Film Festival; the Bios art center, Athens; and the Anthology Film Archives, New York. Friedrich taught film and video production at Princeton University from 1998\u20132023.<\/p>\n

Related Event<\/strong><\/p>\n

SINK OR SWIM and RULES OF THE ROAD (both screening on Thursday, September 7, 6:00 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the Gene Siskel Film Center. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu\/access or write cate@saic.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 7, 8:30 p.m. \u201cChallenges us to look at what\u2019s right in front of us.\u201d \u2013 Rhea Nayyar,\u00a0Hyperallergic For nearly a half-century, Su Friedrich has played a pivotal role in American queer cinema and autobiographical film with her rich and often unflinching explorations of family, kinship, and society. Join us for two screenings featuring […]<\/p>\n

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