Lawrence Brose
DE PROFUNDIS 1997 16mm, color/b&w, sound, 65 mins.
In De Profundis I adopt a three part strategy to investigate the historical implications of sexuality, gender construction, and language; to explore Oscar Wilde's poetics; and to critique the homogenization of the contemporary gay movement. This is a rigorous structural film which employs experimental hand and alternative chemical processing techniques to alter the original images. The transformed footage addresses the fixed framing of masculinity while questioning concepts of redemption, contamination and transgression set against critical readings of Wilde and of contemporary gay culture.

Bill Creston
1. "HE STOLE MY GUN," B&W, sound, S/8, DVD, 9 Mins
In this short absurdist narrative, casting himself as "The Bum," and Richard Miller as "The Man," Bill Creston explores conventionality and uncoventionality, need and desire, pride and human condition. This work was shot in B&W silent film, the dialogue was looped to fullcoat, the audio and film masters were edited double-system and then the film was printed on striped color-stock, and sound transferred.
2. “TAXI, TAXI,” color/b&w, sound, S/8, DVD, 15 mins.
Snippets of New York City caught during Creston’s 15 years as a NYC cab driver, with scenes scripted and edited, and some actual dialogue recorded. Original soundtrack and song “Taxi-Taxi” by Bill Creston. This film was screened during the Museum of Modern Art’s “Big As Life” Series 1997-99.

Rebecca Dreyfus, Gregory Millard Fellow
1. “ROADBLOCK” Color, 16mm, and VHS, 15 minutes
ROADBLOCK is a narrative with an experimental edge, about, Erika, a young woman making a film in order to make a connection with other people. Yet, as Erika begins to audition a series of young, hopeful, actors her intentions becomes more and more ambiguous. Is she looking for a lead actor, is she looking for a boyfriend or is she using the power dynamic of the audition to enact her own drama of intimacy? Written & Directed by Rebecca Dreyfus
Music by Portishead & Yoko Ono
2. "THE WAITING"
16mm, and VHS , documentary, 20 minutes, Black and White
The Waiting explores the intermingling of the two very American institutions: Prison and Marriage.
It is a documentary film portraying the romance of Donna and Raymond—a special relationship because Raymond is in prison. The film accompanies Donna on a visit to prison and the audience is privy to many of the frustrations she experiences as the wife of a convict. The film is shot entirely on location in the South Bronx and at The Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

Ed Durante
1. "AMERICA"
16mm or VHS/B&W, 9 minutes
A stylized glimpse at the New York art scene, where sex and money are more important than a Black painter’s talent

Sandra L. Gibson
1. "SOUNDINGS" (2001),16mm, color, sound, 5.5minutes.
A new, yet recognizably traditional avant-garde film that translates a collage of sounds, voices and music into a kaleidscope
film experience - alternating between abstract and concrete imagery.
2. "EDGEWAYS" (1999), 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes.
A concrete kinetic tone-poem.

Michael Gitlin
1. "SHUDDER (top and bottom)" 16mm, optical sound, VHS3 minutes
The source for “Shudder (top and bottom)” is a piece of found footage on which a 35mm film image finds itself on 16mm film stock. Each
frame of the original 35mm image covers two 16mm frames, with the top half of the original image on one frame and the bottom half
on the next frame. When projected, this misprint becomes a kind of shuddering optical toy, with a dense, collagist soundtrack that
rubs against the complicated visual weave of the images. Shudder (top and bottom) scratches at the fiction of the original footage,
leaving behind, in its phosphene-laden after-image, a throbbing world of lonely danger.
2. "NINE GUIDED TOURS"original format: miniDV screening format: DVD18:30
Nine Guided Tours is an essay on some aspects of the language and technology deployed in turning natural space into commercialized
space. Shot in nine different commercialized caverns, the tape is loosely divided into thematic sections organized around lighting
strategies, the particular syntax of tour guides, the invented social history of caverns, and an underground psycho-topography in which
the cave walls and formations function as a kind of transmitting medium. Like anything else, a cave is an empty space waiting to
be filled with ideology. Nine Guided Tours drifts underground and closely inspects some passages.

Stephanie Gray
1. "I LUVED THIS CITY" (color super 8 or VHS, sound, 3 mins.
A crush on a hard to get city. A Valentine to its buildings melting in snow. Frozen hands trying to focus. Soggy wet sneakers and socks persist through the rough terrain of this luved city. Desperate attempts to perform magic, miracles, and walking on snow without sinking. Do not deconstruct this.
2."ONLY LONELY (for Storm de Hirsch)" (handprocessed b/w super 8 film or VHS, sound, 3 min)
I love this forgotten building and I love the forgotten woman filmmaker, Storm de Hirsh. The Motels' 80s tune is dissected. AKA the film "I Love This Building." If only I had heard of Storm de Hirsch earlier. If only I could save this building. If only I had seen it earlier.

>Georgia Lee
1. "THE BIG DISH", 16mm, DVD and VHS, b/w 4mins
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s short film “The Big Shave” in which a young man blithely shaves himself to death, “The Big Dish” features a young girl preparing a meal like no other. The film was made in response to the ten year anniversary of the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on student demonstrations for democracy in Tiananmen Square in 1989.Tthe struggle to reconcile the underlying dualities of diametrically opposed cultural, social, sexual, political, and psychological extremes .
2. "EDUCATED" 35mm, DVD and VHS, color, 11 mins.
A Chinese-American girl is plunged into a surreal and deadly world of familial obligation and societal pressure after she accidentally walks in on her best friend’s suicide attempt.With a focus on an Asian-American female perspective, this film explores the broader themes of liberation from both external and internal constraints.

Jeffrey Lerer
GETTING A HEAD GOING PLACES, 1990, VHS, 8 min.
           A clay and mixed-media animation about evolution and survival
RIGHT HAND MAN, 1991, VHS, 11:40
            A clay and mixed-media animation about adaptation and survival
MEMORY BOX TRILOGY, 1994-5, VHS, 9:20
            A mixed-media animation confronting the viewer with a continuous evolving stream of imagery that mimics the evolution of an individual human consciousness.  In its later stages, the imagery grows somewhat less abstract and alludes to surrounding socio-political events.
MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS FOUND AT THE GILBERT HOTEL, 2001-2, VHS, 11 mins .
         Manuscript Fragments Found at the Gilbert Hotel is a 3-dimensional computer animated compendium of vignettes, written in 26 fragments (a-z).  Each release, consisting of 3 fragments, presents the viewer with intimate close-ups of life at this hotel of the absurd.  Though a story eventually emerges, the script strives to maintain a sense of phenomenological accumulation.  The imagery is excavated from the 1950s, framed in painterly composition and color, employing noir and theatrical camera methodology.

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10 Filmmakers, Three evenings,
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