Experimental filmmaker and visual artist SU FRIEDRICH has written, shot, directed, and edited twenty-seven films since 1979, including The Ties that Bind (1985), Hide and Seek (1996), Gut Renovation (2012), and Today (2022). Her landmark film, Sink or Swim (1990), was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Friedrich has had multiple retrospectives at major museums and film centers, received numerous fellowships and awards including the Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Arts and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation among others, and has had two books recently published about her film work. From 1998-2023 she was Professor of Visual Art in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, where she taught film and video production courses.
