The Velvet Vampire
Stephanie Rothman
1971 82min Color 16mm US
A glamorous seductress meets a handsome young man and his vapid but pretty wife at an art exhibit. She lures the couple to her sun-drenched, remote abode where they become enthralled with her mysterious ways?but something isn?t right... Tensions arise when sex alone doesn?t satisfy this blood-thirsty demon. Lesbian love, sex and violence pervade this kitschy 70s classic. A full-frontal embrace of camp and low-budget B-movie aesthetics, The Velvet Vampire is touted as the first vampire movie directed by a woman.

Unicorn
Candice Lin
2004 1:25min Color MiniDV US
World Premiere, Filmmarker in Person
A stuffed animal loses its mind at a little girls expense?

Dream Invasion
Jackie Marlin
2004 1:41min Color MiniDV
US Premiere
A hand–drawn tale of a girl haunted by her dream companions.

Lovely Lonely
Ariana Hamidi
2004 2 min B/W 16mm US?
West Coast Premiere
A stop-motion love story starring two-dimensional characters.

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Monsters
Gretchen Hogue
2004 10 min Color 16mm US
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
Rosemary?s Baby and The Shining are re-photographed, focusing on the films' female protagonists and their gradual subjugation by horror and retaliation, instigated by their husbands' brutal betrayals. The men have been removed in this revision, rendering the women paranoid and hysterical, trapped within some frightening labyrinth of their own creation, running from something we cannot see. In their unexplained terror, they become the monsters themselves.

Pedant Philia
Sandra Cheng
2003 1:30 min Color 16mm US
SF Premiere
Pedantphilia: n. love for teachers, especially occurring when the student experiences symptoms of schizophrenia. A hand-drawn story of unrequited love.

Poor White Trash Girl?Class Consciousness
Kelly Spivey
2003 6.5 min Color 16mm US
An animation tale of one girl?s introduction to the class wars.

Last Still Life
Michele Stanley
2003 3 min B/W 16mm Canada
US Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
Reality, dream and hallucination intermingle when a single, disturbing moment becomes a continuously looped fragment of memory.

Late
Diane Cheklich
2003 7:38 min B/W 16mm US
Eerie, high-contrast shots of seedy hotels and dial-a-savior billboards are collaged together as late-night radio evangelist, Sister Agnes Phillips, dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls.

Make Haste Slowly
Elizabeth Block
2004 6 min Color Silent 16mm US
Filmmaker in Person!
Block presents a visual poem of text, color and light. Drawings on clear film leader are exposed to light and re-photographed as digital pixels that are then projected backwards. This moving collage is both lyrical and disconcerting.

Buffalo Lifts
Christina Battle
2004 3 min Color 16mm US/Canada
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
A peek at gentle four-legged friends in a sumptuous wash of color, optically printed to obey the maker.

Neptune?s Release: Shot in the Dark
Joell Hallowell and Jacalyn White
2004 17 min Color 16mm US
West Coast Premiere ? Filmmakers in Person!
Hallowell and White?s humorous and devastating found-footage extravaganza, complete with 50s advertisements, spiritual audiotapes, obsolete medical films and a star-studded cast that includes Janis Joplin, Timothy Leary and Shirley MacLaine. Neptune?s Release is a study of ingenious juxtapositions.

Numerical Engagements
Chelsea Walton
2004 4 min Color 16mm US
World Premiere, Filmmaker In Person!
This hand-processed, optically printed love poem explores an intimate, roaming rendezvous. Lush and colorful, the rhythm of editing resembles a heartbeat.

See Bikini See
Angela Reginato
2004 2:45 min Color 16mm US
Filmmaker in Person!
The secret schematics of 60s beach movies are revealed in this found-footage film in which scratched-off emulsion reveals the sexual undertow overtaking Annette, Frankie and friends.

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Shining Into
Thanh Diep
2003 1:39min Color MiniDV US
World Premiere, Filmmarker in Person
Both poetic and blunt, Shining Into explores the assumptions and prejudices made about people with disabilities.

Love in an Elevator
Love in an Elevator
2002 17min B/W 16mm US
SF Premiere
A loving portrait of Joseph and Jean who are in their 80?s and live in a NYC nursing home. Partially paralyzed and confined to wheelchairs, this spunky, elderly couple embrace their relationship and learn from each other every day.

Weirded Out and Blown Away
Sharon Greytak
1986 43min Color 16mm US
This groundbreaking documentary challenges victim/superhero stereotypes of disabled people through frank interviews with five professionals: Anne Finger, a fiction writer who has had polio; Clark Middleton, a stage actor with rheumatoid arthritis; Mark Gash, a painter with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bones); Harilyn Russo, a psychotherapist with cerebral palsy, and Greytak herself, a filmmaker with rheumatoid arthritis. The film offers insights into the-social and personal relationships of disabled men and women: perceptions of their physical and professional images; difficulties encountered on job interviews; ranking of disabilities according to social acceptability; sexuality; and vulnerability to crime. Speaking plainly and with humor, the participants point to the common ground shared by the disabled and non-disabled alike.

Water Comes From the Sea
Andrea Bala
1996 6min B/W 16mm Germany
US Premiere
A stunning and lyrical portrait of Alois Wolf, who at 58 years old has been deaf and blind for 35 years. His sense of touch is his only way of experiencing the world. Using his palms he is reintroduced to a car?and his dream of driving becomes a ?and the reality becomes a dream.

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Boond: In 6 Tellings
Anuradha Chandra
2004 14min Color MiniDV
US Premiere Boond tells a mythical fable of a drop of water that turns into a man. The story is told by four women from around the world. Their interpretation and retelling of this ancient tale reveals the multiple meanings of the story. In a time when communities are collapsing under the pressures of modern life, Boond explores the possibility of resurrecting lost oral traditions and finding spaces to communicate despite differences.

Farm-In-The-City
EE Miller & Bernadine Mellis
2003 5min Color MiniDV US
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person! 8mm footage combined with the interview of a woman who imagines giant possibilities, environmental and social utopia and ecstatic collaboration and struggle.

Floods, Ghosts and Contamination
Jenny Stark
2004 13:45min B/W BetaSP US
N. CA Premiere The film uses the old Mexican folktale of ?La Llorona? as a backdrop to depictions of two disasters in Texas, one caused by a flood associated with the building of a dam on the Rio Grande River and the other caused by environmental contamination near an old Air Force base in San Antonio.

Landscapes in Alphabetical Order
Katherin McInnis
2003 1min Color MiniDV US
Filmmaker in Person! In this scenic montage McInnis examines the ways moving images are coded, organized- and archived by using film stills from the Prelinger Archives that were filed under the keyword ?landscape.?

Fan (a lovel story)
Lori Samsel
2003 5min Color BetaSP US
CA Premiere
An animated look at the love between a girl and her fan.

Monument
Amy Harrison
2003 1:34min Color MiniDV US
Theatrical Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
An animated pile of stones works as a parable of the earth?s response to the build up of thousands of years of human activity.

How to Fix the World
Jacqueline Goss
2004 28min Color BetaSP US
CA Premiere
Based on Soviet psychologist A.R. Luria's research on Central Asian collective farms in the 1930's, How To Fix The World illustrates the cultural conflicts between speaking and writing, drawing and photography, and Soviet Socialism and Islam. Digital animations based on Max Penson's early 20th century photographs play against a backdrop of 21st century footage of Uzbekistan, where Luria originally conducted these humorous, conflicting and revealing conversations with the Muslim farmers of Central Asia.

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It?s Like That
Southern Ladies Animation Group
2003 7:15min Color BetaSP Australia
West Coast Premiere
This animated documentary is based on the voices of three children who were interviewed while being detained in one of Australia?s several Immigration Detention Centers, in accordance with the Australian Migration Act of Mandatory Detention of Asylum Seekers.

On Women?s Recipes
Beatriz Flores & Sonia Malfa
2003 10min Color 16mm US
World Premiere
An intimate peak into the kitchens of Cuban, Jamaican, Iraquois and African women as they discuss the acquisition of taste, rituals, memory, the carrying on of tradition and making a home in a foreign land.

Atreyee
Shumona Goel
2004 20min Color 16mm India
US Premiere
A stirring portrait of Atreyee, a woman who relocates, alone, to Bombay. In a series of gritty still images, the film chronicles this fearlessly independent woman as she establishes daily routines in her new home and searches for a community in a new city. On a trip home to Calcutta Atreyee considers a loveless marriage as the anecdote to her lonely and alienated modern life.

Hotel City
Phoebe Tooke
2004 16min B/W 16mm US
Filmmaker in Person!
This poetic documentary reveals the struggles of tenants living in SRO (Single Residence Occupancy) hotels and how they are empowering themselves to make changes. Hotel City uses the testimonies of four tenants that are involved with the Central City SRO Collaborative, a group of tenants and community members. The goal of the Collaborative is not only to improve the living conditions and safety of SROs, but also to address larger issues facing this community. (P. Tooke)

Jam
Stefanie Brockhaus
2002 8min Color BetaSP UK/Germany
US Premiere
Simple and revealing, Jam is an observational documentary about people who are stuck in a seemingly never-ending traffic jam on their way to an unknown destination.

The Smallest Space
Gretchen Hildebran
2004 9:20min Color MiniDV
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
Using re-photographed archival footage and newly created images, Hildebran tells a personal story of the disintegration of her family during a 1978 road trip from California to Vermont.

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Ballerina
(c.1950)
A black-and-white animated journey from girl to womanhood.

Soccer for Girls
(c.1940)
Learn some techniques for playing this game and tips on what girls shouldn?t try alone on the soccer field.

What Girls Want from Boys
(c.1960)
This verité documentary features a group of teens earnestly talking about love, maturity and whether or not young people can truly have intimate relationships.

Masculine or Feminine
(1969)
This excerpt is arguably the most well edited segment of an educational film?with boxing images and gruesome sound effects inter-cut with women talking about femininity and male stereotypes.

We Are Woman
(c.1975)
Featuring Helen Reddy (singer of I Am Woman Hear Me Roar) philosophizing about the evolution of womanhood. This film includes some wonderfully campy character dramatizations, including bikini-clad weight-lifting macho men and happy housewives as well pill-popping lonely mothers.

Myths and Facts
(1988)
In a quiz show format, this short film explores the myths and realities of contraception, premature ejaculation, douching and love versus sex.

VD: A New Focus
(c.1980)
Actor James Brolin tells us how to and how not to get an STD. Cel animation and dramatizations allow the full story to be told.

Gunny Wolf
(c.1975)
With simple hand-drawn animation and playful narration by school children, this film tells of a girl lost in the woods who learns a life lesson the hard way.

The Date
(c.1970)
What happens when a teenage couple comes home after a date with the house to themselves? Learn dating dos and don?ts from this riveting narrative.

A Family Talks About Sex
(c.1980)
Wet dreams, being gay, sex and cursing. These are not the dinner-table conversations you might be used to, but these "families" take them all on in this series of earnest narratives.

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Duck
Amy Taubin
1975 2min B/W 16mm US
Part of a direct address trilogy, film critic and filmmaker Amy Taubin?s Duck confronts the audience with audacious declarations.

Cut Piece
Yoko Ono
1964/65 12min B/W 16mm US/Japan
As a central player in the 1960s Fluxus movement, Yoko Ono created a range of avant-garde and subversive performances and sculptures. For Cut Piece, Ono puts her trust in the audience as she sits and allows them to participate with her and a pair of scissors. Ono says of this performance, "it is my hope for world peace. When I first performed this work, in 1964, I did it with some anger and turbulence in my heart."

Freedom
Yoko Ono
1970-71 1min Color 16mm US
Watch Yoko Ono try to extricate herself from the confines of her underclothes in Freedom.

Meat Joy
Carolee Schneemann
1964 6min Color 16mm France/UK/US
Meat Joy is an erotic rite -- excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chickens, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic -- shifting and turning between tenderness, wildness, precision and abandon--qualities which could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the sacred erotic in a suppressive time.

Like
Amy Taubin
1975 2:45min B/W 16mm US

Remote?Remote
Valie Export
1973, 12min Color 16mm Austria
Known to many for her groundbreaking and distinctly feminist work, Valie Export presents a shocking and intimate comment on femininity and pain in her film Remote?Remote. With simplicity and unflinching directness, Export confronts the viewer with a simple and indelible action.

Body Collage 1967
Carolee Schneemann
1967 4min B/W 16mm US
Experience Schneemann writhing naked and covered with molasses and wallpaper paste in a pile of paper becoming her own Body Collage.

See
Amy Taubin
1975 6min B/W 16mm US
 

Solokonsert voor recensent en fotograaf
Moniek Toebosch
1977 20min Color 16mm The Netherlands
Not only a filmmaker, Toebosch is a performer, an artist, a singer and an actress. Initially created for two audience members (an art critic and a photographer) Solokonsert? is a rarely seen, bizarre, side-splitting and ultimately tear-jerking "happening."

The Burning Bride
Eveline Ketterings
2003 6min B/W 35mm The Netherlands/Hong Kong
A single relentless shot of a mystifyingly random act of inspiration, or fitness?Set in a contemporary Hong Kong a bride becomes the center of attention as she acts out with futility.

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Electrocute Your Stars
Marie Losier
2004 8min Color 16mm US
World Premiere. George Kuchar in Person!
Transforming space and time, Losier allows George to travel through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries. Clad is a red raincoat and shower cap, thumbing through comic books and happily blowing bubbles, he describes his bathing rituals and the making of his film, Hold Me While I?m Naked. We are also privy to details about his life, including his shower rendezvous with Janet Leigh and a near death experience.

French Fries
Ellen Lake
2003 3min Color Super8 US
Filmmaker in Person!
French Fries illuminates the fried potato obsession of filmmaker Rebecca Baron, who gathered her collection while on a film shoot in 1998 and 1999, sealed them in plastic bags and watched their decay.

Lil Picard
Silvianna Goldsmith
1981 28min Color 16mm US
Silvianna Goldsmith?s Lil Picard is a filmed memoir of the witty and irreverent art world personality, artist and critic. This film "is extraordinary for two reasons. First, because the subject lets herself be recorded stating the most candid account of her exciting and long life. She states that she had a forest of penises to choose from. ... These and other truly candid revelations are an eye opener. Second, the picture is a first class work of historical journalism, showing the life and career of one of this country's most interesting woman artists and journalists in a true and open portrayal. Lil's life from childhood to senior citizenship was a tour through great events." Charles I. Levine

Carve
Gretchen Hildebran
2003 4min B/W MiniDV US
Filmmaker in Person!
Carve. chronicles Bay Area Now participants? Carolyn Cooley and Sara Thustra and their exploration of body cutting as a personal and political practice.

Bird, Bath and Beyond
Marie Losier
2003 12min Color/B/W 16mm US
This is the first installation of Losier?s intriguing companion pieces about the quirky and ingenious twin filmmakers Mike and George Kuchar. Creating a dreamlike portrait, the filmmaker dresses Mike in futuristic animal costumes and manipulates his image to drift across sea, space and sky as he reveals his demons. ?I used to have dreams where I would go shopping in a department store. But when looking down I would realize I forgot to put on my clothes. I was afraid that maybe I exposed and revealed myself too much through my films or drawings. I don?t put myself into my movies because that would be too much - my pictures reflect my own feelings. So hopefully it?s entertaining. Otherwise I can?t bear looking at them, ha ha!? Mike Kuchar 

The Second Memory
Bea de Visser
2004 12min Color 35mm Czech Republic/Germany/The Netherlands
US Premiere

A haunting document of Marketa Kulhanková and of photographs taken of her in 1953 by her husband. De Visser uncovered the portraits and adopted their likeness as paintings in her own installation in 1994. In this film, she visits Kulhanková in Prague and tries to map her past, armed with a camera the discrepancies between past and present, dream and reality are both eerie and intriguing.

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Which Way
Claudia Herbst
2001 5min Color BetaSP Germany
US Premiere
Through relentless yet enticing drum beats combined with rapid fire editing of animation, still photographs and live-action sequences, Herbst reveals a national tragedy through her very personal story in Which Way.

Travis
Kelly Reichardt
2004 11:46min Color BetaSP US
West Coast Premiere
Reichardt appropriates and illustrates an NPR radio interview with the Portland mother whose son Travis was killed clearing mines in Iraq just after President Bush declared the end to major combat. Through intricate sound editing the full story of this loss is revealed with chilling clarity.

Good Morning, Night
Kiyoko Segawa
2004 3min Color Mini DV Japan/US
West Coast Premiere
A surreal animation about a family that tries to ignore impending war?

Devour
Carolee Schneemann
2004 7:52min Color MiniDV US
World Premiere
Looped fragments of moments of both domestic intimacy and political disasters create a sense of ambiguous menace both real and imagined.

It?s Not My Memory of It
Julia Meltzer & David Thorne
2004 25min Color BetaSP US
It?s Not My Memory of It is about secrecy, memory and documents. In this riveting video a former CIA source reveals how the agency constructed his false identity. Actual US military footage shows a burial at sea and shredded classified documents are animated and reconstructed to reveal a complex story of cover-ups, the complexity of defining the ?truth? and the difference between ?real? and ?protocol? secrets. Mobilizing specific historical records as images that flash up in moments of danger, this piece addresses the intensification of secrecy practices in the current climate of heightened security.

Call to the Dark Side
Barbara Klutinis
2003 2:30min Color MiniDV US
San Francisco Premiere
Filmmaker in Person!
With an eerie sound track and footage of a boy about to jump off an unidentified ledge, Klutinis creates anticipation and fear of an unknown horror ahead.

The Thief of Bagdad
Diane Nerwen
2003 5min Color MiniDV US
Oil, flying horses and tales of liberation swirl together in this Technicolor action adventure fantasy starring Charlton Heston as a swaggering Texan empire-builder in Baghdad and Conrad Veidt as his nemesis. The film draws on imagery and dialogue from classic Orientalist cinema to depict a clash of civilizations, Hollywood style.

The Invisible Hand
Lori Hiris
2003 12min Color/B/W 16mm US
The Invisible Hand is a hand-drawn history of corporate corruption from Enron, to Halliburton to Marthagate. Hiris uses her stunning craft to reveal new connections between some of the worlds? most powerful conglomerations.

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Tram
Louis Bertelsen
2002 3 min Color Mini-DV US
Filmmaker in Person!
This politically inspired performance uses a former president as its narrator and a San Francisco street as its stage.

The General
Sietske Tjallingii
2004 3 min Color DVD The Netherlands
Bay Area Premiere
A biting satire on patriotism and military power in post-September 11 America.

Viet-Flakes
Carolee Schneemann
1966 11 min B/W 16mm US
“Viet-Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images I collected from foreign magazines and newspapers over a five-year period. Magnifying glasses from the ?5 & 10? were taped onto a borrowed 16mm Bolex in order to physically "travel" within the photographs?producing a rough animation. Images in and out of focus, broken rhythms and pans, the abstracted shapes and motions, speeding perceptual contradictions. For instance, a pointillism of falling black specks in focus becomes bombs dropping through the sky; an impressionistic swirl of tones translates as faces of US soldiers leading barefoot villagers from a gas-filled tunnel; a ?Rembrandt ink drawing? focuses in as a tank dragging a roped body.” (C. Schneemann)

Patriotism
Joyce Wieland
1964 4 min Color 16mm US
Using stop-motion to animate one man?s nightmare of hotdogs, the filmmaker takes a humorous approach to criticizing blind patriotism.

Cross Examination
Lori Hiris
1994 12 min B/W 16mm US
Using the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill broadcast as its soundscape, Cross Examination is a chilling reflection on politics, race, power dynamics and gender relations in America.

Solidarity
Joyce Wieland
1973 11 min Color 16mm US
Women unite at a strike and and shoes star in this cinematic gem with the voices of empowered workers as the soundtrack Wieland continues to challenge and intrigues her audiences by framing her subjects in unconventional ways.

Mr. Speaker
Caroline Avery
1973 11min Color 16mm US
Take a peek at a moment in history by viewing Mr. Speaker, a nonsense riddle with no answer, starring Newt Gingrich.

Across the Border
Dana Plays
1982 8 min Color/B/W 16mm US
This unconventional documentary uses archival footage, optically printed and hand–tinted, to untangle the complex relationship between the people of El Salvador and the US government in the early 80’s.

Allegiance
Lori Hiris
1992 6 min Color/B/W 16mm US
An exploration of US jingoism, national identity and the rhetoric of the 1991 Gulf War.

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The Smiling Madame Beudet
1923 32 min B/W 16mm France
Lauded as the first feminist film ever made, The Smiling Madame Beudet is a silent, lyrical thriller. The sad and lonely Madam Beudet, belittled by her husband and left at home unoccupied, dreams of her ultimate revenge. French filmmaker Dulac embraces both conventional storytelling and avant-garde techniques?superimpositions, off-kilter camera angles, and literal smoke and mirrors?to create tension as the narrative unfolds. Even Madame is surprised by the outcome of her own meddling? Paper Boats (Carrie Campbell and Melissa Maristuen) present a new electronic score.

Seashell and the Clergyman
1927 30 min B/W 16mm France
The Seashell and the Clergyman is the first surreal film, predating Bunuel?s Un Chien Andalou. It is the erotic and feminist film-adaptation of a surreal script by Antonin Artaud. This dreamlike tale follows a clergyman, committed to his devotion to God and his promise of lifelong celibacy, as he is tormented by his desire and love for a beautiful woman. Dulac?s brave interpretation is a complicated and damning exploration both of female stereotypes and male desire. The film was banned in 1927 by the British Board of Film Classification with the comment ?This film is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless and if there is a meaning it is doubtless objectionable.? The Secrets of Family Happiness play their wonderful and melodic musical delights. Featuring Dusty Jermier on bass, Armon Kasmai on guitar and Lila Thirkield on drums. The Secrets create dynamic and moody music with a cinematic flair! .

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Homecoming
Sarolta Jane Cump
2004 1:40 min Color Mini-DV US
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
A girl, a bear and her grandfather. A Jungian tale.

A Conversation with Elizabeth?s Father
Kami Chisolm & Elizabeth Stark
2004 7 min Color Mini-DV US
Oakland Premiere, Filmmakers in Person!
This is a brutally honest and hearfelt interview with novelist, Elizabeth Stark?s father as he awaits his own death. An exploration of family, homophobia and the power of the written word, this video is as uplifting as it is unsentimental.

swf, 29, seeks self
Gretchen Skogerson
2004 9:15 min Color Mini-DV US
After placing a personal ad in two newspapers Skogerson culls through the hours of phone messages left by eager prospective suiters. swf? comments on loneliness, attraction, repulsion and how Freud can affect dating rituals.

Lucy
Krescent Carasso
2003 7 min Color Mini-DV US
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
Based on a real experience, Lucy is a haunting, poetic narrative of a dangerous secret shared between two roommates. Exploring issues of addiction, self-destruction and social responsibility, Lucy investigates the nature of heroism in a society that denies its own problems by constantly coming to the rescue of others. (K. Carasso)

I?ve Got To Get Out of Here
Alison Davis
2002 1:30 min Color Mini-DV US
World Premiere
In this striking animation, a man is tortured by his own agoraphobia.ß

Dust
Jae-hee Hong
2003 9 min B/W/Color 35mm Korea
West Coast Premiere
Using stark still photographs. Dust chronicles the mundane daily chores of an alienated housewife. Locked in the household, her soul becomes fossilized and encrusted with dust.

The Waves
Yael Braha
2003 12:40 min B/W 35mm Italy/US
West Coast Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
A poetic social commentary told through the eyes of unexpected voyeurs. Statues from around the world unite through their voices, thoughts and feelings about time, space and life?(Y. Braha)

Papa Blue
Charlene Shih
2003 13 min Color 35mm US
East Bay Premiere
Combining live-action, documentary and animation, this haunting film reveals a story of political and cultural history as well as a very personal bond between a father and daughter.

Better or Worse?
Jocelyn Cammack
2000 9 min Color 35mm Australia
With stunning cinematography and sparse dialogue, Better or Worse? explores the world of an 8-year-old girl as she attempts to make sense of her defective eyesight. Balancing the child?s innate desire to appear normal with the visual chaos of everyday life, the film challenges our ideas of perspective, both real and imagined, and offers a hopeful portrait of overcoming obstacles.

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Verbatim
Annetta Kapon
2000 4:30 min Color DVD US
A docu-comedy-melodrama composed of rejection letters.

The Free Speech Zone
Kasumi
2004 18 min Color Mini-DV US
US Premiere
A fusion of multi-layered polyphonic sampling, heavy, relentless beats and scorching satire.

Scientification
Catherine Elliot
2003 1:45 min Color Beta SP UK
US Premiere
This video explores science, special relation, perception and rhythms.

140 Seconds Skin Self Portrait
Mieke Smits
2002 2:28 min Color Mini-DV The Netherlands
A study of skin.

Electronic Spine Track 4
Julie Meitz
2003 6.5 min Color DVD France
West Coast Premiere
Flashback to the early electronic music devices! A mixture of educational films re-edited to the beat of the music.

Photocopy Queen
Lorraine Heller-Nicholas
2003 1:47 min Color DVD Australia
US Premiere
A tap-dancing commentary on the pressure to perform.

A Place I?d Like To Be
Lorraine Heller-Nicholas
US Premiere
West Coast Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
This frame-by-frame animation explores romance and escapism in Hollywood film.

Papa Blue
Charlene Shih
2003 13 min Color 35mm US
East Bay Premiere
Combining live-action, documentary and animation, this haunting film reveals a story of political and cultural history as well as a very personal bond between a father and daughter.

Opperetta in 36 Parts
Guido Martens and Marie-Lucie Ruytinx
2003 15:51 min Color DVD Belgium
US Premiere
A collage of hyper colorized actions that explore clichés and gender stereotypes.

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