Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Su Friedrich: Today*. Two Los Angeles premieres! Su Friedrich in person! ∆ Filmforum welcomes back Su Friedrich after several years for the Los Angeles premieres of two of her digital video works! *Seeing Red* (2005, 27 min) and *Today* (2022, 57 min). “With almost a million personal videos now posted on YouTube.com, we may guess that people today find self-recording to be as natural as tooth brushing, though slightly more public. If so, then Su Friedrich once again stands out from the crowd…Despite her quarter-century’s experience in making intensely self-revelatory, formally complex films, nothing less than a professional crisis drove her to start a video diary \[and\] she has mulled over her pained monologues until they have taken on a musical form…Sometimes bracingly expressive, sometimes serenely beautiful, the outdoor images interrupt and tease, echo and comment upon Ms. Friedrich’s bedroom outpourings, putting them into their artistic place.” —Stuart Klawans, The New York Times **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 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 they have been widely screened and extensively written. Her work is the subject of two recent books: Su Friedrich: Interviews, edited by Sonia Misra and Jed Samer, Univ. of Mississippi Press (2022) and Su Friedrich by Barbara Mennel, Univ of Illinois Press (2023.) The films have 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. Fifteen of her films are available on DVD and VOD streaming from Outcast Films and her two most recent films are at Icarus Films. Thank you to the Academy Museum, where there will be a different in-person screening with Su Friedrich at the Academy Museum on Saturday January 10 at 3 pm, featuring “Damned if you Don’t” and “Sink or Swim.”: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/girls-on-film-two-by-su-friedrich-019a326b-b833-7424-bd0d-6ce3d1e4140c Thank you to K.J. Relth-Miller, Bob Hunter, Icarus Films