Tonight's program is a tribute to student filmmaking and features works made in Ernie Gehr's Avant-Garde Film course and Jeffrey Skoller's The Language of Cinema course. Avant-Garde Film is taught once a year in conjunction with screenings at PFA. Students have the option of making a film or video as their final project. The Language of Cinema, the first film-production course at Berkeley, covered theoretical and critical concerns usually addressed in the written scholarship of Cal's film curriculum, such as narrative structure, concepts of editing and the use of sound. Here the students explored them by producing films and videos of their own. The students completed a total of four projects: First, they made short video self-portraits with the purpose of revealing the filmmaker through the medium. A montage exercise honed editing skills. Group projects allowed students to work as a crew and explore camera techniques. (One included a workshop with visiting Yugoslavian filmmaker Dusan Makavejev who directed the students to make a video about a tree.) The students produced final projects that applied skills and techniques learned from the previous exercises.-Tim Fox Curated by Tim Fox and Jennifer Paige, students in the UC Berkeley Film Studies program. Avant-Garde Film: Untitled (work-in-progress) (Steve Polta, ?? mins, Color, super-8mm). Untitled (Cheryl Park, 3 mins, Color, VHS). ring (Jonathan Leff, Mike Shea, 8.5 mins, Color, VHS). Self-Portraits: Self Portrait (Mary Funsten). Who Am I? (Joshua Greenberg). Who? (Steve Pan) (total, c. 10 mins, Color, VHS). Language of Cinema: Montage: Water (Andy Kuno, Silent, Color). Searching (Steve Pan, Silent, B&W). They Came From Space (Joshua Greenberg, Mike Miller, Color). Relationships (Mary Funsten, B&W). West Coast Pasta (Levi Chang, B&W) (total, c. 12 mins). Group Projects: Josh and His Double (Tony Boersma, Joshua Greenberg, Mike Miller, Daniel Yang, B&W). Tango (Tim Fox, Amy Holberg, Jennifer Paige, Steve Pan, Larissa Voloshin, B&W). The Tree of Us (Dusan Makavejev workshop, Tony Boersma, Tim Fox, Brian Frye, Mary Funsten, Daniel Leighton, Pooh Mayo, Jennifer Paige, Steve Pan, Steve Polta, Larissa Voloshin, Daniel Yang, Color, VHS) (total, c. 16 mins). Final Projects: Destiny (Tim Fox, B&W, Super-8mm). The Game (Mike Miller, Silent, Color). The River (Jennifer Paige, B&W). The Plot (Daniel Yang, B&W/Color). Avant-Garde Film: International Plain Clothes Police (Sean McGuire, 18 mins, Color). (total, c. mins).