friedrich

Su Friedrich's talk was , although intreaguing, a tease! i wish she had talked less and shown more of her videos.yet her words somehow exposed the way in which she worked; it was very apparent that she relied heavily on analmost photograph memory to engage her creative process. the way she told of the car she and her girlfriend got, her writing a letter to her father about her mother listening to classical music, and then how she didnt send it to him....she had an ability to evoke mental images in those in the audience's heads simply orally (she did with me anyway)then again, her rhetorical approach also seemed a reflection of her film work, hence the reason why we saw only small portions of her films. it did become difficult to make ones own interpretation as she sometimes even spoke over-top of the films,almost pushing the ways in which she wanted them to be read..... (it was distracting)i do remember upon viewing the first film thinking that the urg machine rowing appeared very sexualized. (i am assuming this was her intention as she was dealing with gender ambiguity)
in the end i felt a little cheated; once i became pulled into a film , like the one with the two little girls or the one with the nuns, she wouldturn it off! was this cencorship or just a ploy to get us to go out and get the films on your own?