This year's program of work by Asian American film and video artists ranges from the realities of the flesh to the desires of the unconscious, using hand-processing, double-projections and other significant sensory manipulations. Expect the unexpected in this collection of personal work from the Asian American cutting edge.

TRT: 84 mins

Degree Zero
USA, 1999, 3 mins, 16mm, color
Director Te-Shun TSENG

Rhythm, light, movement and texture combine in this brief filmic dance. Originally shown as a two-projector piece.

Viscosity
USA, 1999, 2 mins, video, color
Director Audrey CHUNG

Found footage of all your favorite fluids
and viscera, with a throbbing, suggestive soundtrack.

The interior of the mind examined as a strange and dark dreamscape.


Names
USA, 2000, 9 mins, video, B/W
Director Stuart GAFFNEY

Identity and being converge and diverge in Gaffney's continuing series on hybridity and place.

Imagining Place
USA, 1999, 35 mins, 16mm, color, English
Director Anita CHANG

The surety of self is as elusive as it is vital in this poetic look at belonging in the United States.


Industrial Bodies
USA, 1999, 15 mins, 16 mm, color & B/W, English
Director Khmasea Hoa BRISTOL

A haunting meditative elegy to physical immateriality and questions of mortality.