Lenia Friedrich
Directing
Biography
Pixels, paper, voices, time and textiles are the materials Lenia Friedrich works with. The focus of her artistic work is documentary animated films about older women and research into human perception and memory formation. She completed her diploma in Media Arts with honoring at the KHM in Cologne in 2024, previously a BA in Media Design in Münster and an apprenticeship as an architectural draftsman.
Known For
“The woman is the man's servant”, she grew up with this sentence from her father, Lenia Friedrich's great-grandfather. How much has this way of thinking changed from today, where can you still discover parallels? Her hands testify to her hard work as a housewife, for which she certainly rarely received recognition. Of course, there was never any monetary reward for this, the father was the breadwinner of the family, although she did the reproductive work in silence. Especially the quiet work in the background, which makes it possible to maintain the entire society, Lenia Friedrich would like to put in the foreground.
Muttermale
In early 2020, the lockdown has brought the world to a halt. Homes become space stations, hermetically sealed off from the outside world. Nobody goes out, only the thoughts go wandering. Students of seven international universities exchange personal impressions of and reflections on this forced isolation online and get to know each other through this joint project.
Diaries of Confinement – Part One
An escargotic exploration of the spaces lived and lost throughout the life of Mrs. Miko, who is quite old now, perhaps even a centenarian. Her storied, shell-like mind structures have become intertwined with those of Lenia Friedrich, who, within the proximity of their shared home, dreamily muses on her own moribund process of ageing.