My only complaint about Su Friedrich's lecture was that we didn't get much of a chance to see her films! She talked. And talked. And would even describe scenes - not even just set them up, but almost competely give them away. I think her films were amazing, even just from the 5 minute clips we saw, but I wish she would have just introduced them, then let the films speak for themselves. I did enjoy listening to Su talk about the process that went behind her films and the method in which she worked. For some of her films, Su said she would only have an idea and then begin to collect images for that idea to see how images would work together. It was nothing more then that - she didn't have everything completely planned out, her method dealt a lot with the process in acquiring the imagery for her films, then creating a narrative with the clips she collected.
Even though the films dealt with personal issues, the work wasn't restricted to just that - it spoke to bigger issues that everyone could understand. I find it difficult to make work about my life and have it be interesting to someone else - but Su used her life as inspiration to create films that were interesting and inciteful.
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