Special presentationS of selected work:
Screening of THE BEST OF THE BEST: JAZZ FROM DETROIT
Central im Bürgerbräu, Wurtzburg, Germany, October 2025
Hannah Community Center, East Lansing, Michigan, October 2025
Penn Theatre, Plymouth, Michigan, August 2025
Aretha’s Jazz Cafe at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit, Michigan, May 2025
Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, Germany, November 2024
Windsor International Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, October 2024
Newport Beach Film Festival, Newport Beach, California, October 2024
The Neon, Dayton, Ohio, October 2024
Buffalo International Film Festival, Buffalo, New York, October 2024
Richmond International Film Festival, Richmond, Virginia, September 2024
DokStation Music Documentary Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, September 2024
Freep Film Festival, Detroit, Michigan, April 2024
Screenings and Festivals (2012-2022)
EIC (Experiments in Cinema) screening Vicarious Thrills, April 2022
Museum of Modern Art screening & in-person, Terms of Analysis, February 16th 2022
Downtown Bohemian Film Festival, 2020, One Man Band 1900-2018
Film & Video Poetry Symposium November 2020-January 2021
“City Symphonies” Millennium Film Workshop virtual streaming screening, October 2020
Manhattan, HiJack screening series, Manhattan, January 2019
Cineinfinito Screening, Cantabria, Spain, October 2017
L’Âge d’Or Festival, Brussels, Bertha’s Children, October 2016
"Straight From Bertha" at REDCAT
REDCAT, Los Angeles, Straight from Bertha, October 2015
Los Angeles Film Forum, Retrospective, October 2015
Spectacle, Brooklyn, New York, October 2015
Millennium Film Workshop, March 2015
FIVAC International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba, March 2015
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Associate Professor Roberta Friedman’s upcoming visit to Cuba to showcase her new video installation created in conjunction with her video partner, Dan Loewenthal, at the sixth annual International Videoart Festival in Camaguey, is, in filmmaker’s parlance, the “inciting incident” for this story. Friedman, along with another MSU associate professor, Beverly Peterson, are at the leading edge of a détente with the communist nation with their participation in the festival. But, the real story is in the work Friedman will be showcasing 49 Waltzes for the Motor City: Detroit.
Anthology Film Archives, December 2014
Millennium Film Workshop, Rule & Exception: Experiments in Procedural Cinema, October 2014
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Cosmopolis: 49 Waltzes for the World, December 2013
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Indian Rubber Head, September 2012
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., multiple screenings between September 2011-September 2012
LA Film Forum, Murray and Max Talk About Money, September 2012
REDCAT Theatre, CalArts 74/75, November 2012
Tempus Projects, Florida, 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs, January 14-February 5, 2012
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Vicarious Thrills, January 2012 (reviewed in LA Weekly)
Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky: A Close Look, October 2011 - January 2012
Phillips Gallery, Washington D.C., Kandinsky: A Close Look, Summer 2011
PROJEKTIONEN - Die Koordinaten des Körpers, Berlin, September 18, 2011
Athens International Film Festival, April 2011
Earlier Exhibitions and Festivals (2004-2008)
Rotterdam Film Festival, Winter 2008
Mexico Film Festival, September 2007
Museum of Modern Art, June 2007
Pompidou Centre, Paris, March 2007
Museum of Modern Art, Bertha’s Children, June & August 2006
UCLA Special Screening, David James (Lecturer), Bertha’s Children, 2005
Making of Americans Poetry and Film Festival, San Francisco, 2004
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2004
Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2004
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004
Exhibitions (1975-1998)
Exhibition of The Erl King, Interactive Installation
Jewish Museum, New York
Whitney Biennial, New York, 1987
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Kitchen, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo
1985
London International Festival of Avant-Garde Cinema, Special Invitation
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
FILMEX, Los Angeles
Amerika Haus, Berlin
Eastern European Tour for USIA (Warsaw, Krakow, Lisbon, Malta
Wellington Film Festival, Special Invitation
1983
Collective for Living Cinema, New York
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, West Germany
1982
Roulette, New York
Pasadena Film Forum, Pasadena
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Canyon Cinema, San Francisco
0-City Tour, West Germany
1981
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
Il Gergo Inquieto, Genoa, Italy
Arsenal, West Berlin
Filmmuseum, Munich
Millennium Film Workshop, New York
1980
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Kitchen, New York
Collective for Living Cinema, New York
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Edinburgh Film Festival, Solo Evening Screening
Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
1979
Light Show at Hollywood Bowl with Conductor Lukas Foss and the L.A. Philharmonic
Institut des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Pasadena Film Forum, California
Arsenal, West Berlin
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England