FILM

Gently Down The Stream
Su Friedrich, 1981, US, 16mm, 14'

Gently Down the Stream, one of Su Friedrich’s early works, is built around a set of dreams revealing a conflict between her Catholic education and her lesbian desires. The texts are scratched directly on to the film’s emulsion, while the images are linked together tangentially, thereby evoking the state of bewilderment and dislocation characteristic of dreams.