VIEWING CUE: Gently Down the Stream

VIEWING CUE: Gently Down the Stream


Su Friedrich’s films are both formally rigorous and intimate. In the fourteen-minute 16mm film Gently Down the Stream (1981), she uses fragmentary words and images to render dreams recorded in her journals.



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