Outcast Films is pleased to announce the release
of SEEING RED (27 minutes, Color, 2005, Video)
a new film by veteran avant-garde filmmaker Su Friedrich. SEEING
RED is both a personal and universal exploration that uses visual,
verbal and musical components to challenge our notions of categorizations
and definitions. Friedrich masterfully weaves together various
elements that run parallel, overlap, diverge, and in other ways,
give voice to the notion that a color, a melody, or a person has
multiple characteristics that cannot be grasped by, or understood
within, a simple framework.
From the onset of her career in the late 1970’s,
Friedrich has been a leading figure in avant-garde filmmaking
and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema. Friedrich’s
films are multi-lingual, moving fluidly between the personal and
the political, from autobiographical films about family to the
investigation of society’s notions of sexual identity.
Newly launched Outcast Films is a distribution
company dedicated to the fair and equal representation of media
made by and concerning the diverse Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
community. Outreaching to thousands of educators, activists, policy
makers and breakers, media arts institutions, and individuals,
Outcast Films helps to foster critical discussions around social
justice issues, as well as providing the public with a resource
of cutting edge films and videos created by and impacting the
LGBT community.
Other works available through Outcast Films include
Karen Everett’s WOMEN IN LOVE, a sexually
charged story about love and friendship, Jim DeSeve's TYING
THE KNOT, the highly acclaimed documentary on same-sex
marriage, and PILLS PROFITS PROTEST: CHRONICLE OF THE
GLOBAL AIDS MOVEMENT, a fascinating portrait of the changing
face of AIDS politics and activism worldwide.
For more information on all of Su Friedrich’s
work or Outcast Films, please visit www.outcast-films.com.
