Tale 6.5min, video, 2001
Director: Jane Hudson

"I have called the piece TALE because it suggests a moral. It is fanciful in the way of old fairy narratives, and because it is a kind of leftover, a tailing, the last of a mined source. The mythologies of animistic psyche are burned, leaving only the ghosts of these powerful projections to be cobbled together in a technological simulation. Originally inspired by the recent burning of herds in England due to foot-and-mouth disease or the threat of it, this piece seeks to go beyond the obvious catastrophe of markets to the elemental disturbance of our idea of the 'natural'. Constructed as it is through our memory of images, the 'natural' gives way to technological intervention, becoming merely a series of signs, the full framing of which is sacrificed for the sake of a fantasy. "

Jane Hudson is Video Artist and Instructor of Video and Graduate Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, since 1974. Jane exhibited at MOMA, MFA, Boston, Mill Valley Film/Video Festival, Cal., in Los Angeles, San Fransisco, and venues in Boston, New York, Paris and Czech Republic. She received grants from NEA, Mass. Artists Foundation, Mellon Foundation. The extended CV is available at http://world.std.com/~jhudson

Smoke S8, b/w, sound, 24min, 1995
Director: Pelle Lowe

"In Lowe's super-8 film "Smoke," seductively beautiful cloud formations turn out to be toxic factory emissions, while a series of intertitles with personal questions from employment applications locate the personal notion of individuality within the impersonal geography of the corporate sphere." - Flicker

In 1998, Pelle Lowe was named one of the top ten experimental filmmakers in the United States, when her films were screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of a retrospective exhibition of 8mm Moviemakers. She is currently Visiting Professor of Film and Performance at the San Francisco Art Institute. She taught film and performance at The Massachusetts College of Art from 1990-1997. Her films include Smoke and Bottom Line (1995), Work (1994), Earthly Possessions (1992), Chintz (1990) and Nor (1987), among others.

Dear Mom 15min, 16mm, 1996
Director: Diane Bonder

It is a story about the formation of a girl's identity in relation to her powerful mother, her matriarchal family, and domestic fantasies created by film melodramas of the 30s and 50s. When the young girl's fantasy of matricide comes true due to the ultimately death of her mother, she finds herself at a crossroads. She is left to reconstruct her own identity and finds out that her mother is more complex than she imagines.

Diane Bonder is a New York based media maker whose films and videotapes have been exhibited internationally at festivals and institutions, including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Award, a Mid-Atlantic Media Fellowship, and Jurors Choice Award from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Bonder serves on the screening committee of the New Festival (The New York Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival). http://www.thirteen.org/reelnewyork3/interview-bonder.html

Tournants 16mm, animation, 6 min, 1987
Director: Bridget Murnane

This film presents my personal interpretation of the history of concert dance through the manipulation of cut-outs where the famous dancers of the 19th century sometime collide with their modern day counterparts. The way the figures move in the piece is reflective of the particular choreography and design of the time (e.g. Nijinsky falls apart and can not quite get himself together again, Martha Graham is continually spinning and giving birth to Merce Cunningham who moves in a very angular fashion) All backgrounds and artwork are reflective of the time period in which the characters are moving.

A respected filmmaker for the past ten years, Bridget Murnane's films have received numerous international film festival awards and have been screened on PBS and cable channels worldwide. A graduate of the UCLA film school she has chosen to specialize in the genre of dance media, but has also produced narrative features and non-dance experimental films. In 1998 she received a Pew Fellowship for her work with choreographer Susan Rose and in 1999 The Boston Globe listed a screening of her films as one of the year's Top Ten Dance Events. She serves on the Arts Company Board, the Dance Films Association Advisory Board, and is a consultant for the Boston College/Boston Dance Alliance Dance Community Archive Project.

American Girl 6.5min
Director: Sabrina Zanella-Foresi

An American girl's illustrated guide to non-verbal communication in Italy.

Sabrina Zanella-Foresi is a time-based media artist and cineaste living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has taught film/video production and film history at Massachusetts College of Art, Emerson College, Boston University, and University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is a member of Videospace and Final Cut Pro nonlinear editor. Her short films and videos have been screened internationally.