“Su Friedrich’s films are beautiful and moving evocations of the complexities of lesbian desire and lesbian representation.”—Judith Mayne, Distinguished Humanities Professor of French, The Ohio State University

Since the late 1970s, Su Friedrich has been producing remarkably personal and challenging films about being a woman born into postwar America. Tonight the filmmaker and Princeton University professor shares two of her most acclaimed shorts.

Praised by Yvonne Rainer as “A Girl’s Own Story for lesbians,” Hide and Seek is a daring exploration of lesbian adolescence in the 1960s, cutting between staged sequences of a confused 12-year-old girl with documentary footage of grown women trying to figure out how they ever got from there to here.
As LA Weekly noted, it’s “at once rolling with the tenderness
and cruelty of adolescence and marbled with the wisdom of age.” (63 mins., 16mm)

Equally engaging is Seeing Red, in which Friedrich responds to
a profound professional crisis. Taking to her bedroom, she channels her thoughts and anxieties into a video diary, using highly expressive color and music to underscore her attempts
at understanding the irreducible complexities of other human beings. As the New York Times notes, the completed work is “sometimes bracingly expressive, sometimes serenely beautiful.” (27 mins., video)

Join us after the films for the annual Out @ Wex party., with snacks and a cash bar, in the café area.

Cosponsored by BRAVO, Equality Ohio, HRC Columbus Steering Committee, Kaleidoscope Youth Center, Ohio State’s GLBT Alumni Society, Ohio State’s Multicultural Center, and Stonewall Columbus.

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