Gently Down the Stream
The text of ‘Gently Down the Stream’ is a succession of fourteen dreams taken from eight years of my journals. The text is scratched onto the film so that you can hear any voice but that of a recorded narrator. The images were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the dream content. I am not interested in recreating a “dream sequence” on film; dreams do it infinitely better themselves.
– Su Friedrich
‘Gently Down the Stream’ is a film about conflict, rage and sexuality. It is about the contradictions between crushing culturally-carried, conventional expectations of the individual woman’s search for identity and liberation.
Description Source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
