She worked with colleague Andy Mann as a program editor for an NYU-sponsored series on art books for WNYC.

Initially she filmed artist portraits, beginning with James Rosenquist, as well as Lee Krasner, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Morris, Roy Lichtenstein, and Joyce Kozloff.

[4] Apart from her documentary work she created videos that artistically negotiated female subjectivity and self-perception.

In 1972 she participated in the exhibition Circuit: A Video Invitational at the Everson Museum of Art, curated by David Ross.

[6] Freed arranged photographic fragments sourced from autobiography and various cultures, using collage to examine the notions of time, reality, and tradition, and the relationship between the historical and the contemporary.