...the daughters to begin with were brides of the mother... -Adrienne Rich Unlike its male counterpart, the phrase "like mother, like daughter" is not in common use. While they share a gender, and a mother is always a daughter, these roles are often articulated through their separation rather than their similarities. For those who came of age or into awareness in the seventies, a sense of identity almost inevitably translated into not becoming one's mother. Less recognized, or perhaps less acceptable, is the fact that mothers also questioned the cultural construction of motherhood. In the films presented tonight, through autobiography and fiction, mothers and daughters see the reflection of "I" in "you," a likeness with difference. Susanne Fairfax poetically explores her attempts to come to terms with her mother's suicide in the haunting ...like water into sand (1991, 8 mins). A daughter of a white mother and an absent black father recalls growing up in a predominantly white area in Ngozi Onwurah's Coffee Colored Children (1988, 15 mins, Color/B&W). Irina Leimbacher lets her mother speak in the short Mother Tongue (1991, 4 mins). Gunvor Nelson's Red Shift (1984, 50 mins, B&W) is an exquisitely photographed, multi-layered evocation of her relationship with her mother and with her own daughter, with intermittent readings from Calamity Jane's poignant unsent letters to her daughter. -Kathy Geritz