Reclaiming Lost Film Histories, with Su Friedrich and Scott MacDonald

On April 1, film historian Scott MacDonald interviewed experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich as part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Friedrich discussed her two website projects documenting film history, with further insights from MacDonald, who introduced Friedrich by saying, “From the beginning, one of the things Sue’s films were know for was very careful, precise editing … ‘Ties That Bind’ in part refers to how Sue ties image and sound together in brilliant ways. From the opening moments of that film, you can tell you’re in the hands of a brilliant editor.”
"Edited By" compiles work by women film editors that has gone unrecognized over decades. Organized in the style of a book, it details crucial work by a growing list of women. “In a film production handbook, I was reading the chapter about all the great editing that’s been done, but it never mentioned the editor, only the director,” Friedrich said. “I looked the editors up, and half of them were women, and thought, ‘Well, I didn’t know that. I have to do something about this.’”
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Friedrich's website on William Greaves contains a host of information on the prolific filmmaker's work, comprising his roles as producer, writer, director, cinematographer and/or editor of 79 films.
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