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This program features Loretta (2003, 16mm, 4 mins), 2003), directed by Jeanne Liotta, a violent, kinetic, and gorgeously abstract photogram made without a camera, using only a flashlight; Self Portrait Post-Mortem (2002, 35mm, 3 mins), directed by Louise Bourque, is hauntingly beautiful, both morbid and bristling with color and life, in which magnificently deteriorated frames of yellow- and orange-colored film are superimposed over the image of a woman; Playing the Part (1995, 16mm, 40 mins), directed by Mitch McCabe, in which a combination of home and college footage and photographs creates a funny, angst-ridden personal essay about McCabe's struggle to come out to her parents; Rivet Girl (2006, DVD, 8 mins), directed by Chris Schiavo, a live-action, black-and-white film, which incorporates drawing, photography, animation, and an original soundtrack to portray the coming-of-age story of a young, Chaplinesque female figure wandering about in a super-real world; and Phantom Canyon (2006, 35mm, 10 mins), directed by Stacey Steers, which incorporates cutout models from Eadweard Muybridge's nineteenth-century Human and Animal Locomotion, and over four thousand painstakingly handmade collages to create a dark, lush tale of a woman's journey through her memories.
color, 1 hour 5 minutes, USA