Join us for a screening of Damned If You Don’t (1987) 42 minutes, digital file from original 16mm, b&w, sound. Directed, written, shot and edited by Su Friedrich
Join us for a screening of Su Friedrich‘s beautiful and subversive tale Damned If You Don’t (1987, 42 minutes). Combining personal narratives with footage from the 1947 British drama Black Narcissus and excerpts from the visions of Sister Benedetta Carlini and her condemnation for lesbiannism in 17th century Tuscany, the film masterfully blends narrative styles and symbolic structures in striking and sensual chiaroscuro scenes, meticulously shot and edited by Friedrich in black and white 16mm film.
The screening will be preceded by an introduction and followed by a conversation facilitated by artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro.
Join us for a screening of Damned If You Don’t (1987) 42 minutes, digital file from original 16mm, b&w, sound.
Directed, written, shot and edited by Su Friedrich
Directed, written, shot and edited by Su Friedrich
Featuring Peggy Healey and Ela Troyano
Voiceovers by Makea McDonald, Martina Siebert and Cathy Nan Quinlan
Script consulting and set decoration by Cathy Nan Quinlan
Production managing by Peggy Ahwesh
Su Friedrich has directed twenty-seven films and videos since 1978, which have been featured in thirty-one retrospectives at major museums and film festivals including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema and the National Film Theater in London, and have been widely screened and extensively written about. The films have also won numerous awards, including Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary Award at Outfest and Best Narrative Film Award at the Athens International Film Festival.
With the exception of Hide and Seek (1996), Friedrich is the writer, director, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor of all her films. In 2015, Sink or Swim (1990), was one of the 25 films chosen by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Film Registry.
Her work is the subject of two recent books: Su Friedrich: Interviews, edited by Sonia Misra and Rox Samer, Univ. of Mississippi Press (2022) and Su Friedrich by Barbara Mennel, Univ of Illinois Press (2023.)
Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.
