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Grace 6min, video (Independent Exposure Program)
Director: Lorelei Pepi

Grace is an experimental animation short constructed in four parts, utilizing multi-media techniques to create a layered and flowing poem of visual metaphor. Exploring flesh and soul, spirituality and sensuality, the incandescent body in space transforms as it reclaims itself. Lorelei Pepi is an internationally award-winning experimental animation filmmaker residing in Los Angeles, California. Grace debuted in May 1999 as her first film created independantly while a MFA student at California Institute of the Arts. She has participated in numerous commercial film projects as director, animator, and designer in a variety of animation formats ranging from computer, traditional 2-D, and stop-motion. She is currently working as a Creative Director for a Media Lab doing R&D for the Internet, as well as touring and promoting her film. For more information contact: loreleip@jps.net

P 6.5min, video (Independent Exposure Program)
Director: Yuri A.

A single theme is explored in this film. Excrements, babies, worms and flies guide us through a compilation of facts and theories, approaching a theme often regarded as disgusting in a meaningful and pleasant way.

Child Safety and You 4min, 2000, video
Director: Jeff Smith

Insistent Eyesticles 2.5min, video
Director: Ana Miljacki

Ana Miljacki was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She left the country in 1991, just as the decade of Balkan wars was beginning. Since her arrival to America, Ana has studied architecture, design, and the performing arts. She currently lives in Boston and is working toward a Ph.D. in Architecture at Harvard University. Ana has presented several of her films, installations and performances in Belgrade, Houston and Boston.

Jolicoeur Touriste 10min, 1989, 16mm
Director: Louise Bourque

An enclosed space, a struggle against confinement explored through a fractured narrative. A young man living in a broken down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his inebriety, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. Louise Bourque is a Canadian experimental filmmaker living in the Boston area where she is currently teaching cinema at Emerson College and has been Visiting Film Faculty at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts since 1996. Her films have been widely presented in festivals worldwide and she has received numerous grants, honors and awards for her work.

The Stepfather 5min, 2001, video
Director: Joe Gibbons

Joe Gibbons works in film and video, making features and shorts. His work has been shown at numerous museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, and included twice in the Whitney Biennial, and is regularly included in the NY Video Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. His last feature The Genius, starring Karen Finley and himself, had a month-long run in NYC at Anthology Film Archives and was included in such festivals as New Directors/New Films, AFI and Rotterdam. He lives in New York and Boston and teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Introduction to Living in a Closed System 16min, 200, 16mm1
Director: Brittany Gravely

"What each of them [Lewis Mumford and R. Buckminster Fuller] has done, really, has been to write philosophical poems celebrating a world that does not truly exist, and perhaps can never exist, even though the poems are true."
Allan Temko

Introduction to Living in a Closed System is a fractured educational film based upon the idea of a biospheric utopia: a contained, self-sustaining, controlled environment which survives through dynamic systems (here, involving machines, plants, animals, and humans), each of which effects the development of the others. This hope of human-made technology and the natural world in harmony manifests itself in the collage of imagery, sounds, and text. The disparate elements variously unite or fall apart as all of the visions, fears, and dreams of this retrospective/future place attempt to operate within the ideal of a unified, efficient system. The film serves as an introduction to the complexity of the poetry and the problems created by pastoral dreams of synthetic futures. Brittany Gravely is currently a graduate student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Introduction To Living In A Closed System was part of her thesis project. She is the director, editor, and sound designer. In addition to 16mm, Brittany also works in a variety of areas including sound, video, and installation.

Flying Over Blue Fields 18min, 1996, video Lithuania
Director: Audrius Stony

Clip 4min, 200, 16mm1
Director: Robert Todd

A sequence of 10 images presented in 10 groups of 400 alternating frames. The primary image of a bird is gradually disfigured by the introduction of competing imagery, but the overall field seems to have its own life. Robert Todd has been working in and teaching film production since 1989, producing over twenty short pieces in various formats. Since 1985 he has been working as a painter, musician, and editor/sound designer on experimental, narrative and documentary films and videos. He holds a Masters Degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.