*Luce Irigaray In Slippage (1989, 35 mins, B&W), the difference between the idea of a baby and the reality of rearing a child is revealed, as the filmmaker visits her sisters who either have young children or would like to. The mother/daughter/mother cycle is seen as one of habits and patterns unwittingly inherited. In stopping to ask questions, filmmaker Patti Bruck knowingly slips away from the cycle. Twenty years ago, Camille Billops put her four-year-old daughter Christa up for adoption. In 1980, the 22-year-old Christa located her mother. Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa (1991, 55 mins, Color) uses reconstructions and documentary footage to trace the mother's and daughter's attempts to find each other amidst anger, ambivalence, and contradictory expectations. The artist, her family and community speak of the unspeakable, a mother who gives up her daughter. Christa's adopted mother and family in turn speak of bonds they created beyond biological ties. -Kathy Geritz