Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Damned If You Don't

Su Friedrich 1987 USA Doc b/w 42min English DVD
Damned If You Don’t is Friedrich’s subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano.

Director

Su Friedrich

Su Friedrich has directed twenty-four films and videos since 1978, which have been featured in eighteen retrospectives at major museums and film festivals, including one at the Museum of Modern Art in 2007. The films have been widely screened at film festivals, universities and art centers around the world, have been extensively written about, and have won numerous awards. She currently teaches video production at Princeton University.

Su Friedrich

2017 I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

2012 Gut Renovation

2008 I From the Ground Up

2005 Seeing Red

2004 The Head of a Pin

2002 The Odds of Recovery

1997 Hide and Seek

1993 The Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too

1993 Rules of the Road

1991 First Comes Love

1990 Sink or Swim

1987 Damned If You Don't

1985 The Ties That Bind

1982 But No One

1981 Gently Down the Stream

1980 I Suggest Mine

1979 Cool Hands, Warm Heart

1979 Scar Tissue

1978 Hot Water

Produced by Su Friedrich

Script, direction, camera, sound, editing by Su Friedrich

Script assistant: Cathy Quinlan

Production assistant: Peggy Ahwesh

Su FRIEDRICH

sufried@princeton.edu