This collection of works explores material difficult to articulate through the film/video medium. Subjects that range from exploration of memory and dreams to issues relating to child birth, parenting angst, homosexuality in the military, and first time sexual experiences. These films look at their subjects in a unique sometimes surprising or even shocking way.

Universal Shark 4min, video, 1994-1996
Director: Jacqueline Goss

Piece uses color and comic imagery to illustrate four dreams about fear of pregnancy and parenting in public places. Jacqueline Goss works with many electronic media but is primarily a maker of videotapes that blend tellings of women's real and imagined lives. Goss lives in Boston and teaches at Massachusetts College of Art.

Drops of Memory: Fragments of a Self Portrait 7.5 min, video, 1996
Director: Alberto Roblest

Using a fragmented narrative structure, this video explores the limits of introspection, evocation, dreams and transborderization and probes the limits of the permissible and what one can endure. Alberto Roblest is a poet and video artist, whose visual poetry, experimental documentaries and art pieces frequently explore worldwide environmental and social themes. He has shown video installations and single channel work in museums and galleries in his native Mexico, the United States, Canada and in several European countries. He received a degree in Communications Science at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and later worked as a professor at the university. He has produced more than four dozen videos and published five volumes of poetry. His poems often play a central part in his visual art.

Getting the Home Base: the All-American pastime 11min, video, 1996
Director: Irena Fayngold

This revelaing video delivers a story at once painful and hilarious. Through family snapshots and quirky diagrams,a young woman's adolescent sexual mishapps are revealed play by play as she discovers that the rules of this game are often stackedin the boys favor. Irena Fayngold is a filmmaker and visual artist. A graduate from the Museum School, she has primarily worked in documentary genre. Her works have been screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard Film Archive, Bradndeis University and other venues around Boston, New York and New England.

We Hate You Little Boy 3.5min, video, 1998, Right after they pet me 2.5min, 1999
Director: Janene Higgins

We Hate You Little Boy -- Based on text by John Duncan Latent Emotions result in a vague, namless fear, depicted in stark black-and-white and a relentless text. The text was originally part of an installation by Duncan entitled "THE BLACK ROOM" at The American Hotel, Los Angeles. Right after they pet me -- Playthings skipping to a torch song. Music: "I Œm Good for Nothing But Love" by Martin-Ballard, sung by Ruth Etting. Janene Higgins' videos and digital media have been presented in numerous venues and festivals throughout North America, Europe and Japan, including New York and Chicago's Underground Film Festivals, The Barcelona Festival of Independent Video, Art Institute of Chicago, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Rhode Island School of Design, the Hamburg Short Film Festival, and at New York Irving Plaza. A frequent artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York. Higgins is also part of a performance duo with electric harpist Zeena Parkins, ongoing since 1996. Their live music/live video piece, "Artificial Eye", was presented at Documenta X; their most recent performance piece, "Arch" will be televised in Spring 2001.

Don't ask, Don't Tell 7min, video 2000 Director: James Nadeau This film uses Naval training footage to critique the American Militaries policy on the presence of Homosexuals within its ranks. Through a juxtaposition of the training footage with the audio of the Senate hearings, one can see the failings of the Military's rhetoric. The film is also presented as a part of the live performance whithin which two versions of it are projected both on screen and the artist. The perfomance aspect brings to the front (literally) personal iissue of the artist who, as a child raised in this environment, exists at once in both the Queer world and the Military world. James Nadeau is a BFA candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. Working mainly in the field of Video, his work has most recently been screened at the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Amigo Racism show at the Gallery De La Raza, San Francisco.