SU FRIEDRICH is a legendary New York-based filmmaker who writes, directs, photographs and edits. Her filmography includes The Ties that Bind (1985), Damned If You Don’t (1987), Hide and Seek (1996), From the Ground Up (2008), Gut Renovation (2012), and Today (2022), among others. Her landmark film, Sink or Swim (1990), was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Friedrich is the recipient of the Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Arts and has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Recently Professor of Visual Art in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, she currently teaches film and video production at Connecticut College.
