Tori Amos Crucify (1992)
Sina Früh moves between roles and mediums with ease: from literature and film studies to gender theory, from stage to classroom, from festival work to music and performance. Between disciplines and audiences, she always finds ways of telling stories.
Since 2019, she has been artistic co-director of Pink Apple, Switzerland’s largest queer film festival. Founded in 1997 with the aim of fighting for the recognition and rights of queer people through cinema, the festival has grown into a key cultural meeting point for the community. Next year marks its 30th anniversary—a timeline that feels both substantial and strangely recent when placed next to the release of, say, Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes (keep reading).
Today, Pink Apple is a space where queer audiences, artists and stories gather, reflect and resonate with one another. For Sina, this sense of continuity and collective presence is central—culture not as an archive, but as a lived encounter.
With a background in English literature, film studies and gender studies at the University of Zurich, Sina has worked across film production, theatre, music projects, education and mediation—whether as an assistant on film sets, performing on stage, singing in musical projects, guiding visitors at the Kunsthaus Zürich or teaching English. Across all of it, there is a consistent curiosity for how stories are told and embodied.
When we asked Sina for a track, she chose “Crucify” by Tori Amos. She had just been at the artist’s concert in Freiburg the night after Pink Apple’s closing, still carrying the intensity of the festival with her. Even in that state of exhaustion, seeing Tori Amos live had long been on her bucket list (of course, it was worth it).
“Crucify” closed the concert’s setlist: The song moves between pain and a fragile sense of hope, wrapped in a grungy early-90s atmosphere. Tori Amos herself remains an icon for many in the queer community, not only for her music but for the emotional space she opens up: a place where vulnerability and defiance can coexist, where the need to break out of imposed structures is not only expressed, but felt.
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